Computer memory saves all data in digital form. There is no way to store characters directly. Each character has its digital code equivalent: ASCII code (for American Standard Code for Information ...

To represent text in a computer system, we give each character its own special number. This number is called its code. We can then store this code in the computer using binary ones and zeros. ASCII ...

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 assign ...