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kps
on Jan 27, 2017
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Things Every Hacker Once Knew
> on a Vic-20
Which, weirdly, used the long-obsolete ASCII characters of 1963–1967, with '↑' and '←' in place of '^' and '_'.
SwellJoe
on Jan 27, 2017
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PETSCII was a thing throughout the 8-bit Commodore line of products. It was based on the 1963 standard, but added various drawing primitives. I spent a lot of time drawing things with PETSCII for the BBS I ran from my bedroom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETSCII
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