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ASCII
BASIC
Baud
Bit
Byte
CPI
Firmware
Hardware
GLOSSARY
American Standard Code for Information Inter ­
change: a standard code which uses numbers to
represent characters (letters, numerals, and sym ­
bols) and control instructions. (See Appendix B.)
Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code:
one of the most popular programming lang!Jages
used with personal computers. Programming ex ­
amples in this User's Manual are written in
BASIC.
A measure of the speed at which data is transmit­
ted. In personal computers, the baud rate is
equivalent to bits per second. With serial inter ­
faces, the printer must be set to receive data at the
same baud rate at which the computer transmits
data.
Binary digit. Each bit is either 1 or
o.
A basic unit of information consisting of eight bits.
One byte can represent any ASCII character or
any number between 0 and 255. (Note: Some
computers handle data in 7-bit units.)
Characters Per Inch: a measure of character width.
Note that 10-cpi characters are wider than
17.1-CPI characters.
Programming or information recorded in a perma­
nent storage device, such as a ROM or PROM.
Firmware is fixed and cannot be modified as soft­
ware can.
The tangible machinery and circuits in a computer
system: keyboard, printed-circuit boards, print
head, etc.
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