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    The ZX80 character set is the character encoding used by the Sinclair Research ZX80 microcomputer with its original 4K BASIC ROM. The encoding uses one...
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    The Sinclair ZX80 is a home computer launched on 29 January 1980 by Science of Cambridge Ltd. (later to be better known as Sinclair Research). It is notable...
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    the character set of the predecessor ZX80. The character set has 64 unique glyphs present at code points 0–63. With the most significant bit set the character...
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    Spectrum character set uses the high-bit range 0x80–0xFF for special purposes. 0x80–0x8F contain the same 2×2 block graphics characters that the ZX80 character...
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  • QL character set was developed by Sinclair Research for the Sinclair QL personal computer. QL, what? Never heard of the QL... ZX80 character set ZX81...
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    Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to...
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    Commodore 64, included a set of text semigraphics with block elements and dithering patterns in the PETSCII character set. The Sinclair ZX80, ZX81, and ZX Spectrum...
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    The ZX80 and ZX81 character sets, where a matrix of 2×2 pixels was used, with the space and invert attribute tricks to keep the number of characters in...
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    ASCII (redirect from ASCII Character Set)
    128 code points, of which only 95 are printable characters, which severely limit its scope. The set of available punctuation had significant impact on...
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  • The Lotus International Character Set (LICS) is a proprietary single-byte character encoding introduced in 1985 by Lotus Development Corporation. It is...
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    also a printing character. $ was used by many assembler systems, : used by CDC systems (this character had a value of zero), and the ZX80 used " since this...
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  • Sinclair BASIC (category ZX80)
    points are assigned in the ZX80 character set, ZX81 character set and ZX Spectrum character set for each keyword or multi-character operator, i.e. <=, >=,...
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  • The Lotus Multi-Byte Character Set (LMBCS) is a proprietary multi-byte character encoding originally conceived in 1988 at Lotus Development Corporation...
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    Pound sign (redirect from Pound character)
    system which dated from 1976 encoded the £ as x23. The Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81 characters sets used x0C (ASCII: form feed). The ZX Spectrum and the BBC Micro...
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    Newline (redirect from New line character)
    text message. Later, in the age of modern teleprinters, standardized character set control codes were developed to aid in white space text formatting....
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    launched in the United Kingdom in March 1981 as the successor to Sinclair's ZX80 and designed to be a low-cost introduction to home computing for the general...
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  • precursor of, and inspiration for, the Unicode Standard. The International Character Set (ICS) is compatible with XCCS. The XCCS 2.0 (1990) revision covers Latin...
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  • PETSCII, ZX80, and ZX81 character sets. Semigraphics characters are also included in the form of new block-shaped characters, line-drawing characters, and...
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  • escape sequences which can be used for switching between different coded character sets (for example, between ASCII and the Japanese JIS X 0208) so as to use...
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  • computers would have as low as 1 KB (plus 4 KB ROM), such as the Sinclair ZX80 (while the later very popular ZX Spectrum had more memory), or even only...
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    special issue magazine featuring Galaksija Z80 – Galaksija's CPU ZX80 - Sinclair ZX80 which predates the Galaksija by 4 years and has a remarkably similar...
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  • in the character set the 26 × 2 letters of the English alphabet. Later standards issued by the ISO, for example ISO/IEC 8859 (8-bit character encoding)...
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    use entirely different keys. This cursor key layout was seen in Sinclair ZX80, ZX81, and ZX Spectrum home computer designs. These machines had 40-key keyboards...
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  • Character encoding detection, charset detection, or code page detection is the process of heuristically guessing the character encoding of a series of...
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    geometric shapes contained within the operating system's non-ASCII character set. The only form of long-term storage was Compact Cassette. The 16 KB...
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  • T.51/ISO/IEC 6937 (category Character sets)
    T.51 / ISO/IEC 6937:2001, Information technology — Coded graphic character set for text communication — Latin alphabet, is a multibyte extension of ASCII...
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    especially the "junior Computer" from Elektor (a copy of the KIM-1), and the ZX80 from Sinclair. Among the kits sold there were also alternative floppy disk...
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  • single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 11: Latin/Thai alphabet, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first...
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    several of the previous Sinclair Radionics products. On 29 January 1980, the ZX80 home computer was launched to immediate popularity; notable for being one...
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  • single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 3: Latin alphabet No. 3, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first...
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