<character> /pet'skee/ 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 64, Commodore 16, and
Commodore 128 computers. 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 graphic
characters.
[Jargon File]
(1995-10-29)
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