On 2025-02-16 1:51 p.m., paul.kimpel--- via cctalk wrote:
I don't understand -- ASCII had only two versions,
1963 and 1967, and both had square brackets. The IBM PC used ASCII, but had nothing to do
with its standardization.
https://archive.org/details/enf-ascii-1965-1966/page/n47/mode/2up