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PETSCII
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PETSCII /pet'skee/ /n. obs./ [abbreviation of PET ASCII] The
variation (many would say perversion) of the ASCII character
set used by the Commodore Business Machines PET series of personal
computers and the later Commodore C64, C16, and C128 machines. The
PETSCII set used left-arrow and up-arrow (as in old-style ASCII)
instead of underscore and caret, placed the unshifted alphabet at
positions 65--90, put the shifted alphabet at positions 193--218,
and added graphics characters.
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