File Formats & Standards · Recorded milestone
EBCDIC character code
Recorded year1964
IBM's 8-bit EBCDIC, grown from its punched-card codes, encodes text on the System/360 and still runs on bank mainframes today.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.