7.2) What is the ATASCII character set?

Subject: 7.2) What is the ATASCII character set?

ASCII is an acronym for the American Standard Code for Information
Interchange. Pronounced ask-ee, ASCII is a code for representing English
characters as numbers, with each letter assigned a number from 0 to 127. For
example, the ASCII code for uppercase M is 77. Most computers use ASCII codes
to represent text, which makes it possible to transfer data from one computer
to another.

The 8-bit Atari computers use a modified version of the ASCII character set
called Atari ASCII, or ATASCII.

David Moeser produced this nice translation table.
Piotr Fusik corrected the description of Atari character 5.

(see attached txt file)

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