TIL the ASCII control characters (0-31, 127) had meaningful glyphs on some systems.
Nice BEL 
, weird DEL (probably to avoid confusion with DLE)pic.twitter.com/vvnVHRiD3c
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TIL lowercase characters were originally not defined in ASCII in 1963. http://worldpowersystems.com/J/codes/X3.4-1963/ …pic.twitter.com/JJpRVzp7YA
And this is how the Commodore 64 ended up with uppercase/lowercase in reversed locations compared to regular ASCII. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETSCII
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ahhh, good point - TIL. I'll do a PETSCII table too.
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