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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I worked for a credit bureau for a while and a product we had used a mainframe for billing customers. So the billing file was in EBCDIC.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Financial and health institutions are famously behind the times.