Post #4261902
2026-07-13 21:24 UTC
@thalia@discuss.systems Weird that the space character is just, well space. I didn't know that!
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@thalia@discuss.systems 2026-07-13 21:32
@hannorein@mastodon.social Apparently ASCII space is encoded as EBCDIC 0x40: https://wiki.osdev.org/EBCDIC. I don't know what spacebar on a keypunch would have done, though. ASCII NUL from paper tape did nothing, so is similar.