PETSCII
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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, starting with the PET from 1977 and including the CBM-II, VIC-20, Commodore 64, Commodore 16, Commodore 116, Plus/4, and Commodore 128.
Character encoding on Commodore computers
 PETSCII (shifted and unshifted) | |
| Language(s) | English with pseudographics |
|---|---|
| Classification | 8-bit extended early ASCII |
| Based on | US-ASCII (1963 version) |