EBCDIC

Professor: "So the American government went to IBM to come up with an encryption standard, and they came up with—" Student: "EBCDIC!"

An eight-bit character encoding that is not ASCII used by IBM mainframes such as the IBM System/360.

Python Library

A Python library for decoding EBCDIC is available (https://pypi.org/project/ebcdic/) and is used by PyNIPS.