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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2025 02:46:04 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:08:14 -1000, Lynn Wheeler wrote:

> trivia: 360s were originally going to be ASCII ... but the ASCII unit
> record gear wasn't ready ...

Both System/360 and the first official ASCII spec came out in 1964, so you 
could understand why it would have been too much of a rush to get ASCII 
support working in time for the product launch.