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EBCDIC – Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code

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Last Updated May 24, 2021 7:41 am

Abbreviation of Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code. Pronounced eb-sih-dik, EBCDIC is an IBM code for representing characters as numbers. Although it is widely used on large IBM computers, most other computers, including PCs and Macintoshes, use ASCII codes.