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Originally Posted by barryem
Do you carry your IBM mainframe around with you so you can read? I bet you look funny on the bus. And where do you find power in the park? Or do you have a portable, battery powered mainframe? 
Actually I haven't worked on or even seen a mainframe in decades so as far as I know maybe you can carry them in your pocket these days.
Barry |
I have an EBCDIC to ASCII conversion program on my laptop (handles 5 variants as far as I remember). It was originally used to handle converting files for a company that had EBCDIC files on 8" SD floppies for use on their new CP/M machines with 5.25" hard sectored floppies (Northstar for the antiques fan). The original code came from a CP/M users group floppy and it's a program that I like to rewrite every once in a while for new processors and operating systems.