ASCII Characters
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Lists the 255 ASCII characters
      0 thru   32 non printable characters
    33 thru 127 ASCII
  128 thru 255 extended ASCII

What is ASCII?
Pronounced askee, ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange.


Why ASCII?
Because computers only understand numbers, ASCII was devised to allow computers, and communications equipment, to use numbers to represent text.


What can ASCII do?
Using the ASCII table in conjunction with CHR$() allows us to display characters that are not on the keyboard.
PRINT CHR$(134) in our code will result in printing a Single Dagger,
Note:
Holding down the Alt key while you input the ASCII value in the numeric keypad will print the ASCII character when you release the Alt key.