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United States of America · Science / Technology. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1968

Lyndon Baines Johnson11 March 1968

Washington · Science / Technology

President Lyndon B. Johnson mandates that all computers purchased by the federal Government support the ASCII character encoding

Names involved

Lyndon Baines Johnson

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