Timeline for When did IBM start to use ASCII?
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| Aug 17, 2020 at 20:58 | comment | added | Raffzahn | @i486 Of course. They are still (and for all forseable future) the backbone for most large systems. Whenever you do a credit card transaction, chances are good that a /360 style mainframe is involved at some - or several - points. | |
| Jul 10, 2020 at 10:38 | comment | added | i486 | What is current status of mainframes - are they still manufactured and improved? | |
| Jul 8, 2020 at 22:12 | comment | added | Austin Hemmelgarn | Adding to this, even modern usage of 'ASCII' is not always purely ASCII, it'a almost always as a subset of another encoding that happens to utilize ASCII for the 7-bit space represented by bytes with the MSB being 0 (such as UTF-8, Shift JIS, or an ISO 8859 variant). for compatibility reasons. | |
| Jul 8, 2020 at 10:32 | vote | accept | No Name QA | ||
| Jul 9, 2020 at 6:23 | |||||
| Jul 8, 2020 at 7:54 | history | answered | Stephen Kitt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |