Data - Coding systems
Special characters

Encoding text data - ASCII

A second popular code, commonly used in micro-computers is ASCII Code. An 8 bit code with a seven bit character representation.

Ctrl Char	Binary__Oct_Dec_Hex	Ch_Hex	Ch_Hex	Ch_Hex	Ch_Hex
@ NUL A SOH B STX C ETX D EOT E ENQ F ACK G BEL H BS I HT J LF K VT L FF M CR N SO : [ ESC	00000000 000 000 00 00000001 001 001 01 00000010 002 002 02 00000011 003 003 03 00000100 004 004 04 00000101 005 005 05 00000110 006 006 06 00000111 007 007 07 00001000 010 008 08 00001001 011 009 09 00001010 012 010 0A 00001011 013 011 0B 00001100 014 012 0C 00001101 015 013 0D 00001110 016 014 OE : 00011011 033 027 1B	! 21 " 22 # 23 $ 24 % 25 & 26 ' 27 ( 28 ) 29 * 2A + 2B , 2C - 2D . 2E / 2F	0 30 1 31 2 32 3 33 4 34 5 35 6 36 7 37 8 38 9 39 : 3A ; 3B < 3C = 3D > 3E	A 41 B 42 C 43 D 44 E 45 F 46 G 47 H 48 I 49 J 4A K 4B L 4C M 4D N 4E O 4F	' 60 a 61 b 62 c 63 d 64 e 65 f 66 g 67 h 68 i 69 j 6A k 6B l 6C m 6D n 6E

Notes:

The control characters are at the beginning of the table.
The order is digits, uppercase (A..Z), then lowercase(a..z), so when you sort ASCII text this will be the sort order.
ESC(Hex 1B) used in many products as an "exit" key, or used in conjunction with other characters, to set attributes on the screen or printer(such as bold, underline).
LF (Hex 0A) and FF(Hex 0C) useful when printing,
BEL (Hex 07) used to ring a bell when a warning is given to an operator/user.
Communications characters include ACK (Hex06) to acknowledge data has been received correctly (and its opposite NAK (Hex15)).

Now try to add up the ASCII codes for operating system names.

MS-DOS 6.21	77+83+45+68+79+83+32+54+46+50+49 = 666
SYSTEM 7.0	83+89+83+84+69+77+32+55+46+48 = 666
WINDOWS 95	87+73+78+68+79+87+83+57+53+1 =666 (You have to add 1 to the first release as it wasn't until 1996 that the bugs were fixed!)

Now lets see who masterminded all these...

bgatesx.jpg (5441 bytes)

66+73+76+76+71+65+84+69+83 = 663
(Ahhh.. but he is actually William Henry Gates III, so we better add 3!)
663 + 3 = 666

So how did he get so powerful? Why did he make it big when so many other equally talented nerds work for peanuts?

Is this the beginning of mankinds ultimate and total enslavement ?

Source: Unknown.