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Symbols for Legacy Computing is a Unicode block containing graphic characters that were used for various home computers from the 1970s and 1980s and in Teletext broadcasting standards. It includes characters from the Amstrad CPC,
MSX
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, Mattel Aquarius, RISC OS, MouseText, Atari ST
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, TRS-80 Color Computer, Oric, Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, TRS-80, Minitel, Teletext, ATASCII, PETSCII, ZX80, and ZX81 character sets, as well as semigraphics characters.
Block
The image below is provided as quick reference for these symbols on systems that are unable to display them directly: :
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Symbols for Legacy Computing block:See also
* Supplemental Arrows-C Unicode block characters and * Block ElementsReferences
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