[Coco] BASIC program contest

Theodore Evans (Alex) alxevans at concentric.net
Tue Jun 29 19:09:39 EDT 2004


On Jun 29, 2004, at 3:58 AM, John Guin wrote:

> Purists will notice the 124 characters for the character set, and 
> point out
> that ASCII calls for 127.  This machine did not support ASCII, which 
> was one
> of it's many quirks.

If you want to be really picky about things, ASCII has only 94 printing 
characters, 96 if you count a space as a printable character.  If you 
count the non-printing characters as well there are 128 ASCII 
characters.

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Theodore (Alex) Evans | 2B v ~2B = ?




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