Thursday, November 10, 2011

World Power Systems:Texts:Annotated history of character codes

World Power Systems:Texts:Annotated history of character codes: "ASCII is not art. It's a code, a way of hiding things within a smaller thing.

This document is about character codes, specifically a history of ASCII(1), the American Standard Code for Information Interchange , and its immediate ancestors; FIELDATA, ITA2, Murray's telegraphy code, Baudot's telegraphy code, and Morse's telegraphy code, and involves some forensic bitology."

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