ISBN: | 978-5-5146-1586-5 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Six-bit character codes were designed for use on computers with word lengths a multiple of 6. Six bits can only encode 64 distinct characters, so these codes generally include only the upper-case letters, the numerals, some punctuation characters, and sometimes control characters. Such codes with additional parity bit were a natural way of storing data on 7-track magnetic tape.