Goodbye ASCII Bob
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 10:12 am
ASCII Inventor Died:
Bob Bemer died yesterday. One of the inventors of the ASCII coding system and also contributed the backslash and the escape key to the computer language.
Bob Bemer, a computer pioneer who published warnings of the Y2K problem in the early 1970s and helped invent a widely used coding system, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 84.
Bob Bemer died yesterday. One of the inventors of the ASCII coding system and also contributed the backslash and the escape key to the computer language.
Bob Bemer, a computer pioneer who published warnings of the Y2K problem in the early 1970s and helped invent a widely used coding system, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 84.
