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 ...

Wondering how to introduce your children to 8-bit ASCII binary without sending them into a ones-and-zeros ... Here are the ASCII characters (letters and binary code): A: 01000001. B: 01000010. C ...

Poets and novelists turn words into pictures. But on the Internet, the world-spanning computer network, a group of people is taking this idea a bit further. They are ASCII artists, devoted to takin… ...

It applies 8-bit ASCII to the tape, and supports control codes and ANSI escape sequences. There’s a very short demonstration video of a tape being cut, which we’ve placed below the break.

Without this 8-bit ASCII feature, existing files that use just ASCII would expand by a factor of 4 due to inefficient coding. Tom Scott has an interesting video explanation of the “miracle of Unicode” ...

Mirrored from the Washington Post: (Already searched, search is "unavailable".)quote:Computer Pioneer Bob Bemer, 84 By Patricia SullivanWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, June 25, 2004; Page B06 ...