The string 'Joyce Davis', in EBCDIC, is X'D1 A8 D7 83 85 40 C4 81 B4 89 A2'. (Spaces added for clarity.)
That was hexadecimal EBCDIC. In binary EBCDIC, the letters are...
J D1 1101 0001
o A8 1010 1000
y D7 1101 0111
c 83 1000 0011
e 85 1000 0101
_ 40 0100 0000 (space)
D C4 1100 0100
a 81 1000 0001
v B4 1011 0100
i 89 1000 1001
s A2 1010 0010
0xC2
EBCDIC Code
extended binary coded decimal interchange code
Davis D. Joyce has written: 'Oklahoma I Had Never Seen Before'
EBCDIC is Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code. It was the character encoding scheme developed and used by IBM. EBCDIC is completely overshadowed by ASCII and ASCII's big brother, Unicode. EBCDIC is very difficult to use, as the alphabet is non-contiguous and the encoding makes no logical sense.
Extended binary coded decimal interchange code
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EBCDIC
EBCDIC (Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code) is a character encoding system used by IBM mainframe computers. It is a binary code used to represent character data, and is an extension of the earlier ASCII code. EBCDIC is used primarily on IBM mainframe computers, and its variants are used on IBM midrange computers. EBCDIC has a number of advantages over ASCII. First, it is a more efficient code, requiring fewer bits to represent a character. Second, it allows for more characters to be represented, including accented characters and non-Latin alphabets. Third, it has built-in error-checking features that ASCII does not have. However, EBCDIC also has a number of disadvantages. First, it is not as widely used as ASCII, so there is less software available that can work with it. Second, it is not as easy to convert data from EBCDIC to ASCII (or vice versa) as it is with ASCII. Finally, EBCDIC is a proprietary code, developed and owned by IBM, so it cannot be used by other computer manufacturers without a license from IBM.
Davis Darrell Joyce has written: 'Edward Channing and the great work' -- subject(s): Historiography
Joyce Davis has written: 'Why Greenland is an island, Australia is not--and Japan is up for grabs' -- subject(s): Accessible book, Geography
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