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Line 1: {{Short description\|Computer encoding of characters}} {{Use dmy dates\|date=May 2019\|cs1-dates=y}} A '''six-bit character code''' is a [[character encoding]] designed for use on computers with [[word length]]s 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. The [[IBM 7 track\|7-track]] [[Magnetic tape data storage\|magnetic tape]] format was developed to store data in such codes, along with an additional [[parity bit]].

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