PETSCII, the Glossary
PETSCII (PET Standard Code of Information Interchange), also known as CBM ASCII, is the character set used in Commodore Business Machines' 8-bit home computers.[1]
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- ASCII
- Commodore International
- Computer-related introductions in 1977
- VIC-20
Amiga
Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985.
Apple keyboards
Apple Inc. has designed and developed many external keyboard models for use with families of Apple computers, such as the Apple II, Mac, and iPad.
See PETSCII and Apple keyboards
Arrow keys
Arrow keys or cursor movement keys are keys on a computer keyboard that are either programmed or designated to move the cursor in a specified direction.
ASCII
ASCII, an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. PETSCII and ASCII are character sets.
Atari 8-bit computers
The Atari 8-bit computers, formally launched as the Atari Home Computer System, are a series of 8-bit home computers introduced by Atari, Inc., in 1979 with the Atari 400 and Atari 800.
See PETSCII and Atari 8-bit computers
Atari ST character set
The Atari ST character set is the character set of the Atari ST personal computer family including the Atari STE, TT and Falcon. PETSCII and Atari ST character set are character sets.
See PETSCII and Atari ST character set
ATASCII
The ATASCII character set, from ATARI Standard Code for Information Interchange, alternatively ATARI ASCII, is a character encoding used in the Atari 8-bit home computers. PETSCII and ATASCII are ASCII and character sets.
Backspace
Backspace is the keyboard key that in typewriters originally pushed the carriage one position backwards, and in modern computer systems typically moves the display cursor one position backwards,The meaning of "backwards" depends on the direction of the text, and could get complicated in text involving several bidirectional categories.
BASIC
BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use.
Bell character
A bell character (sometimes bell code) is a device control code originally sent to ring a small electromechanical bell on tickers and other teleprinters and teletypewriters to alert operators at the other end of the line, often of an incoming message.
See PETSCII and Bell character
Break key
The Break key (or the symbol ⎉) of a computer keyboard refers to breaking a telegraph circuit and originated with 19th century practice.
Caps Lock
Caps Lock is a button on a computer keyboard that causes all letters of bicameral scripts to be generated in capital letters.
Caret
Caret is the name used familiarly for the character (the circumflex and a circumflex accent) provided on most QWERTY keyboards by typing.
Carriage return
A carriage return, sometimes known as a cartridge return and often shortened to CR, or return, is a control character or mechanism used to reset a device's position to the beginning of a line of text.
See PETSCII and Carriage return
Character encoding
Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using digital computers.
See PETSCII and Character encoding
Chuck Peddle
Charles Ingerham Peddle (November 25, 1937 – December 15, 2019) was an American electrical engineer best known as the main designer of the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor, the single-board computer, and its successor, the Commodore PET personal computer, both based on the 6502.
Commodore 128
The Commodore 128, also known as the C128, C-128, or C.
Commodore 16
The Commodore 16 is a home computer made by Commodore International with a 6502-compatible 7501 or 8501 CPU, released in 1984 and intended to be an entry-level computer to replace the VIC-20.
Commodore 64
The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, January 7–10, 1982, in Las Vegas).
Commodore BASIC
Commodore BASIC, also known as PET BASIC or CBM-BASIC, is the dialect of the BASIC programming language used in Commodore International's 8-bit home computer line, stretching from the PET (1977) to the Commodore 128 (1985).
See PETSCII and Commodore BASIC
Commodore CBM-II
The Commodore CBM-II series is a short-lived range of 8-bit personal computers from Commodore Business Machines (CBM), released in 1982 and intended as a follow-on to the Commodore PET series.
See PETSCII and Commodore CBM-II
Commodore International
Commodore International Corporation (other names include Commodore International Limited) was a Bahamian home computer and electronics manufacturer with executive offices in the United States founded by Jack Tramiel and Irving Gould. Commodore International (CI), along with its subsidiary Commodore Business Machines (CBM), was a significant participant in the development of the home computer industry in the 1970s to early 1990s.
See PETSCII and Commodore International
Commodore PET
The Commodore PET is a line of personal computers produced starting in 1977 by Commodore International. PETSCII and Commodore PET are computer-related introductions in 1977.
Commodore Plus/4
The Commodore Plus/4 is a home computer released by Commodore International in 1984.
See PETSCII and Commodore Plus/4
Composite artifact colors
Composite artifact colors is a designation commonly used to address several graphic modes of some 1970s and 1980s home computers.
See PETSCII and Composite artifact colors
Computer font
A computer font is implemented as a digital data file containing a set of graphically related glyphs.
Cursor (user interface)
In human–computer interaction, a cursor is an indicator used to show the current position on a computer monitor or other display device that will respond to input.
See PETSCII and Cursor (user interface)
Delete key
The delete key (often abbreviated del) is a button on most computer keyboards which is typically used to delete either (in text mode) the character ahead of or beneath the cursor, or (in GUI mode) the currently-selected object.
English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
See PETSCII and English language
Enter key
On computer keyboards, the enter key and return key are two closely related keys with overlapping and distinct functions dependent on operating system and application.
Esc key
On computer keyboards, the Esc key (named Escape key in the international standard series ISO/IEC 9995) is a key used to generate the escape character (which can be represented as ASCII code 27 in decimal, Unicode U+001B, or.
Extended ASCII
Extended ASCII is a repertoire of character encodings that include (most of) the original 96 ASCII character set, plus up to 128 additional characters. PETSCII and Extended ASCII are ASCII and character sets.
See PETSCII and Extended ASCII
Framebuffer
A framebuffer (frame buffer, or sometimes framestore) is a portion of random-access memory (RAM) containing a bitmap that drives a video display.
Function key
A function key is a key on a computer or terminal keyboard that can be programmed to cause the operating system or an application program to perform certain actions, a form of soft key.
Grave accent
The grave accent because of rendering limitation in Android (as of v13), that its default sans font fails to render "dotted circle + diacritic", so visitors just get a meaningless (to most) mark.
Help key
A Help key, found in the shape of a dedicated key explicitly labeled, or as another key, typically one of the function keys, on a computer keyboard, is a key which, when pressed, produces information on the screen/display to aid the user in their current task, such as using a specific function in an application program.
Hexadecimal
In mathematics and computing, the hexadecimal (also base-16 or simply hex) numeral system is a positional numeral system that represents numbers using a radix (base) of sixteen.
Home computer
Home computers were a class of microcomputers that entered the market in 1977 and became common during the 1980s. PETSCII and Home computer are computer-related introductions in 1977.
Home key
The key is commonly found on desktop and laptop keyboards.
Insert key
The Insert key (often abbreviated Ins) is a key commonly found on computer keyboards.
ISO/IEC 8859-1
ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 1: Latin alphabet No. PETSCII and ISO/IEC 8859-1 are character sets.
See PETSCII and ISO/IEC 8859-1
Jack Tramiel
Jack Tramiel (born Idek Trzmiel; December 13, 1928 – April 8, 2012) was a Polish-American businessman and Holocaust survivor, best known for founding Commodore International.
Letter case
Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally majuscule) and smaller lowercase (or more formally minuscule) in the written representation of certain languages.
MOS Technology 6502
The MOS Technology 6502 (typically pronounced "sixty-five-oh-two") William Mensch and the moderator both pronounce the 6502 microprocessor as "sixty-five-oh-two".
See PETSCII and MOS Technology 6502
Newline
A newline (frequently called line ending, end of line (EOL), next line (NEL) or line break) is a control character or sequence of control characters in character encoding specifications such as ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode, etc.
Non-breaking space
In word processing and digital typesetting, a non-breaking space, also called NBSP, required space, hard space, or fixed space (in most typefaces, it is not of fixed width), is a space character that prevents an automatic line break at its position.
See PETSCII and Non-breaking space
PEEK and POKE
In computing, PEEK and POKE are commands used in some high-level programming languages for accessing the contents of a specific memory cell referenced by its memory address.
Playing card
A playing card is a piece of specially prepared card stock, heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic that is marked with distinguishing motifs.
Pound sign
The pound sign is the symbol for the pound unit of sterling – the currency of the United Kingdom and its associated Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories and previously of Great Britain and of the Kingdom of England.
Prettyprint
Pretty-printing (or prettyprinting) is the application of any of various stylistic formatting conventions to text files, such as source code, markup, and similar kinds of content.
Ric Weiland
Richard William "Ric" Weiland (April 21, 1953 – June 24, 2006) was a software developer, programmer and philanthropist.
In computer displays, filmmaking, television production, and other kinetic displays, scrolling is sliding text, images or video across a monitor or display, vertically or horizontally.
Semigraphics
Text-based semigraphics, pseudographics, or character graphics is a primitive method used in early text mode video hardware to emulate raster graphics without having to implement the logic for such a display mode. PETSCII and semigraphics are character sets.
Shift key
The Shift key is a modifier key on a keyboard, used to type capital letters and other alternate "upper" characters.
Symbols for Legacy Computing
Symbols for Legacy Computing is a Unicode block containing graphic characters that were used for various home computers from the 1970s and 1980s and in Teletext broadcasting standards.
See PETSCII and Symbols for Legacy Computing
Tab key
The tab key (abbreviation of tabulator key or tabular key) on a keyboard is used to advance the cursor to the next tab stop.
Underscore
An underscore or underline is a line drawn under a segment of text.
Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized.
VIC-20
The VIC-20 (known as the VC-20 in Germany and the VIC-1001 in Japan) is an 8-bit home computer that was sold by Commodore Business Machines.
Whitespace character
A whitespace character is a character data element that represents white space when text is rendered for display by a computer.
See PETSCII and Whitespace character
ZX Spectrum character set
The ZX Spectrum character set is the variant of ASCII used in the ZX Spectrum family computers. PETSCII and ZX Spectrum character set are character sets.
See PETSCII and ZX Spectrum character set
See also
ASCII
- ARPABET
- ASCII
- ASCII art
- ATASCII
- Arabic chat alphabet
- Bit-paired keyboard
- Braille ASCII
- Comparison of ASCII encodings of the International Phonetic Alphabet
- ECMA-23
- End-of-Transmission-Block character
- Extended ASCII
- Greeklish
- Kirshenbaum
- PETSCII
- Rough ASCII
- Wang International Standard Code for Information Interchange
Commodore International
- Apple II
- Apple II (original)
- Atari 2600
- Boyer–Moore string-search algorithm
- Color TV-Game
- Commodore PET
- DECSYSTEM-20
- DECmate
- Data Encryption Standard
- HP-01
- Hazeltine 1500
- Home computer
- IBM 5250
- IBM System/34
- Intel 8085
- Interactive kiosk
- Linear temporal logic
- MK14
- Metafont
- Nascom
- Newbear 77-68
- North Star Horizon
- Noval 760
- OSI model
- PETSCII
- Research Machines 380Z
- Rugg/Feldman benchmarks
- TRS-80
- Terak 8510/a
- VAX
- VAX-11
- VideoBrain Family Computer
- West Coast Computer Faire
- XMODEM
- Z notation
VIC-20
- CARDCO
- Commodore 1540
- Commodore Datasette
- Commodore bus
- MOS Technology VIC
- PETSCII
- Stack Light Rifle
- Super Expander
- VIC-20
- VICE
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETSCII
Also known as CBM ASCII, PET ASCII, PETASCII.
, Ric Weiland, Scrolling, Semigraphics, Shift key, Symbols for Legacy Computing, Tab key, Underscore, Unicode, VIC-20, Whitespace character, ZX Spectrum character set.