The second half of the ASCII character set (characters 128 through 255). Designed in the 1960s, ASCII was originally a 7-bit code (0 through 127). To accommodate foreign languages, the DOS code ...

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My first real computer, an Amstrad CPC464, came with the robust Locomotive Basic in ROM, allowing the user to easily hack the hardware ASCII character set. This was awesome: all you had to do ...

How computers encode characters using 7-bit ASCII. ASCII uses seven bits close bit The smallest unit of data in computing represented by a 1 in binary., giving a character set of 128 characters.