An example of a EBCDIC reel header. The Elics System creates this header as ASCII.

C 1 CLIENT U.S.G.S.              COMPANY  BAMG                  CREW NO 0       
C 2 LINE l1f1.sgy   AREA  Washington Shelf      MAP ID None                      
C 3 REEL NO 1         DAY-START OF REEL 096 YEAR 1997 OBSERVER                  
C 4 INSTRUMENT:  Triton        MODEL ISIS       SERIAL NO                       
C 5 DATA TRACES/RECORD 1      AUXILIARY TRACES/RECORD         CDP FOLD          
C 6 SAMPLE INTERVAL 125   SAMPLES/TRACE  2048 BITS/IN      BYTES/SAMPLE  2    
C 7 RECORDING FORMAT 3      FORMAT THIS REEL        MEASUREMENT SYSTEM          
C 8 SAMPLE CODE: Short Integers                                                 
C 9 GAIN TYPE:                                                                  
C10 FILTERS: ALIAS     HZ  NOTCH     HZ  BAND           HZ  SLOPE        DB/OCT 
C11 SOURCE:                 NUMBER/POINT         POINT INTERVAL                 
C12 PATTERN:                               LENGTH        WIDTH                  
C13 SWEEP:           HZ          HZ  LENGTH 3000 MS  CHANNEL NO     TYPE        
C14 TAPER:                    MS                   MS  TYPE                     
C15 SPREAD:                                                                     
C16 GEOPHONES:                                                                  
C17 PATTERN:                                                                    
C18 TRACES SORTED BY: RECORD                                                    
C19 AMPLITUDE RECOVERY:                                                         
C20 MAP PROJECTION                                                              
C21 PROCESSING:                                                                 
C22 ACOUSTIC SOURCE: SIS-1000                 FIRE RATE: 0.5     SECS           
C23                                                                             
C24                                                                             
C25                                                                             
C26                                                                             
C27                                                                             
C28                                                                             
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C39                                                                             
C40 END EBCDIC