Brief History of Character Codes, A

Introduction to Character Codes Character Codes: the Basis for Processing Textual Data What makes personal computers useful to the majority of people is not that they can process numerical data--yes, a lot of people still prepare their tax statements with a handheld calculator, not a personal computer!--but that they can process textual data. Almost anyone would agree that the overwhelming majority of personal computer users employ word processors more frequently than other type of application. In fact, it would probably be difficult to find a personal computer that didn't have a word processor installed in it.