IBM Launches New COBOL Training Initiative

[Don Shepherd]

(04-15-2020 02:40 PM)BobVA Wrote:  I'm not sure what code set they used before that. Perhaps Aramaic or something.

The "older" keypunches had codes for only the following special characters: period, comma, dollar sign, ampersand, minus, percent, slash, number sign, at sign, lozenge (not sure what that was used for), and asterisk. Later punches had things like parentheses, brackets, colon, semi-colon, equals, greater than, less than, etc.