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Kevin Markwell 1226250103|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
i'm interested in the origins of the control character symbols 0 to 31 (decimal), for example in codepage 437. Wikipedia and other sites seem to say that the symbols were designed at Wang Computer. There is very little information about the graphics themselves. Does anyone know?
P.S. i've just found this site, and like it a lot.
Anonymous (69.205.201.x) 1226586119|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
The charaacters themselves were designed because back then (in 11981) when ASCII came back to the PC world, there was no extended character set (128-255). Remember that back (prior to 1981) games were being made, and people started wanting some standard characters to make games out of, for example, the smiley face for classic rogue light games, the card suits symbols, the man and woman symbol and the other you can see in the 0-31 characters). The ASCI values of those symbols are one thing and were original designed to control output on the old computers that had continuous paper instead of a monitor for output. When the hardware fonts were stored in ROM somewhere, the addded 0 to 31 graphics to for the reasons above. and with the extended character set (128-255) well text graphics became what they have been since ASCII became the standard. :).
I wrote an article on the history of ASCII here for a little different point of view.
http://www.ascii-world.com/history
Hope this helped answer your question.
And E.K. One comment about my age here, and I'm going to Finland to kick your butt..LOL.
Anonymous (69.205.201.x), 1226586119|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
EKVirtanen 1226589824|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Hi Kevin (and anonymous MystikShadows)
Thanks for your feedback about the site. To be honest, i havent worked much lately with this site since i am way overworked currently.
Site has existed pertty long, i think year 4 is goin on now. This is third "version" we have complited. First was pure html/frame site, made by MystikShadows. I think i do have copy of it in my secondary computer and i have planned to keep it online too someway.
Second site was build around TikiWiki software, but it was a bit mistake for us. Pretty quickly after moving to tikiwiki, we decided to move here where we are currently.
Hopefully this site can give you information as much as you need. If not, ask and we see if we could help.
E.K.Virtanen
p.s Mystik, yeah, youre old and your heart wont even survive flight over atlantic ocean :P
Kevin Markwell 1226776659|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Thank you very much for the information, i had not considered that they were mainly designed for games. It makes a lot of sense. i'm sure i will keep visiting this site because there are several areas i have not explored yet. Best wishes with the site.
