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Nit: the COBOL spec dates to 1960; EBCDIC came later, ~1963. In 1960, character codes were specific to the manufacturer, and sometimes to the machine. IBM had a 6-bit BCD code that was mostly consistent across its line, but Univac had its own which was quite different.



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