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Character Set: SIXBIT

A subset of ASCII, and my own PASCII subset of it, SIXBIT, is a character encoding codeset that generally includes only the upper case letters, the numerals, some punctuation characters, and the space character. It didn't include control characters.

For techies, the characters of SIXBIT are in the range of 20-5F hexadecimal, or from 32-95 in decimal.

It was an early scheme to save precious bits for punch cards and magnetic tape. For packing SIXBIT characters, coders could pack four SIXBIT characters in a span of three 8-bit bytes to save wasted space since the upper 00-1F range are just unprintable control characters and the lower 60-7F range are mostly lower case letters plus the delete key at 7F.

Gozinta: SIXBIT gozinta PASCII, which gozinta ASCII.

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