EBCDIC was devised in 1963 and 1964 by IBM and was announced with the release of the IBM System/360 line of mainframe computers. It is an eight-bit character encoding, developed separately from the seven-bit ASCII encoding scheme.

Why was EBCDIC developed?

EBCDIC was developed to enhance the existing capabilities of binary-coded decimal code. This code is used in text files of S/390 servers and OS/390 operating systems of IBM.

Who developed EBCDIC?

EBCDIC, in full extended binary-coded decimal interchange code, data-encoding system, developed by IBM and used mostly on its computers, that uses a unique eight-bit binary code for each number and alphabetic character as well as punctuation marks and accented letters and nonalphabetic characters.