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Information on ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a code that uses seven bits to represent standard text characters as well as a number of terminal control characters such as line feed, carriage return and so on. ASCII (pronounced "askey") is one of the two common computer codes.


Other topics in our resources on Communications Systems related to ASCII include: 
 
  • Extended Binary-coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC)
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