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Display code is the character set used by many computer systems manufactured by the Control Data Corporation, notably the CDC 6600 in 1964. DISPLAY code is a 6-bit character set. The CDC 6000 series, and their followons, had 60 bit words. As such, typical usage packed 10 characters per word. Control Data Corporation, or CDC, was one of the pioneering supercomputer firms. ... The CDC 6600 was a mainframe computer from Control Data Corporation, first manufactured in 1965. ... CDC 6000 series were a family of mainframe computers manufactured by Control Data Corporation in the 1960s. ...

There were several variations of display code, notably the 63-character character set, and the 64-character character set. There were also 'scientific' and 'ASCII' variants of both the 63- and 64-character sets. For other uses, see ASCII (disambiguation). ...

A later variation, called 6/12 display code, was used in the KRONOS and NOS timesharing systems in order to support full ASCII capabilities. In 6/12 mode, an escape character (the circumflex, octal 76), preceded each letter to shift it to lower case. For other uses, see ASCII (disambiguation). ...

The PLATO system used a further variant of 6/12 display code. Noting that lower case letters were most common in typical PLATO usage, the roles were reversed. Lower case letters were the norm, and the escape character preceded upper case letters. Plato Plato (Greek: Î Î»Î¬Ï„Ï‰Î½, PlÃ¡tÅn) (c. ... Plato Plato (Greek: Î Î»Î¬Ï„Ï‰Î½, PlÃ¡tÅn) (c. ...

Display code characters (64-character ASCII version)

Binary	Decimal	Octal	Graphic
000 000	0	00	:
000 001	1	01	A
000 010	2	02	B
000 011	3	03	C
000 100	4	04	D
000 101	5	05	E
000 110	6	06	F
000 111	7	07	G
001 000	8	10	H
001 001	9	11	I
001 010	10	12	J
001 011	11	13	K
001 100	12	14	L
001 101	13	15	M
001 110	14	16	N
001 111	15	17	O
010 000	16	20	P
010 001	17	21	Q
010 010	18	22	R
010 011	19	23	S
010 100	20	24	T
010 101	21	25	U
010 110	22	26	V
010 111	23	27	W
011 000	24	30	X
011 001	25	31	Y
011 010	26	32	Z
011 011	27	33	0
011 100	28	34	1
011 101	29	35	2
011 110	30	36	3
011 111	31	37	4

Binary	Decimal	Octal	Graphic	Name
100 000	32	40	5
100 001	33	41	6
100 010	34	42	7
100 011	35	43	8
100 100	36	44	9
100 101	37	45	+
100 110	38	46	-
100 111	39	47	*
101 000	40	50	/
101 001	41	51	(
101 010	42	52	)
101 011	43	53	$
101 100	44	54	=
101 101	45	55		blank
101 110	46	56	,
101 111	47	57	.
110 000	48	60	#
110 001	49	61	[
110 010	50	62	]
110 011	51	63	%
110 100	52	64	"
110 101	53	65	_
110 110	54	66	!
110 111	55	67	&
111 000	56	70	'
111 001	57	71	?
111 010	58	72	<
111 011	59	73	>
111 100	60	74	@
111 101	61	75
111 110	62	76	^
111 111	63	77	;

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