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In article <4c5b64d8$0$10422$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>> I thought that EBCDIC would have gone out with 80 column punched cards!
>> Do they still use punched cards?  It's been about ten years since I last 
>> saw one!
>
>Were punched cards in EBCDIC or did they have their own character
>encoding ? With a punched card reader generating EBCDIC or ASCII
>depending on brand/model ? (aka: an IBM reader would generate EBCDIC,
>while a DEC reader would generate ASCII from the same deck of cards) ?
>
>Or was the encoding of the holes such that it represented bit patterns
>identical to EBCDIC  and the DEC readers would convert those to ASCII
>while IBM readers just sent the raw data to the mainframe ?

Cards had their own code.  

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Blue-punch-card-front-horiz.png/800px-Blue-punch-card-front-horiz.png


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