The character code built into the computer determines how each letter, digit or special character ($, %, #, etc.) is represented in binary code. Fortunately, there are only two methods in wide use: ...

Only 20,000 or so of the big beasts still exist in the wild. They’re IBM mainframes, and despite the scorn of a legacy label, they continue to run critical processes companies simply don’t trust to ...

In communications, a control character that is transmitted to request a response from the receiving station. In ASCII code, the enquiry ("enq") character is hex 05; in EBCDIC, it is 2D. See ASCII ...