Wang International Standard Code for Information Interchange

Wang International Standard Code for Information Interchange (WISCII) is a proprietary version of ASCII used by Wang Computer Corp on their personal computers and minicomputers in the 1980s. WISCII was used on the Wang PC (an IBM-PC compatible), as well as the Alliance APC, OIS, and VS systems. The first 126 characters were the same as ASCII (7-bit), but the remaining characters (ASCII 127-255), which consisted mostly of international letter symbols, were used only by Wang systems.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ↑ Appendix E: Printer Character Set, Model 2245/160 Matrix Printer User's Guide, 1985
  2. ↑ 800-1149-01_VS_Multi-Station_Users_Ref_Dec83.pdf, 1983
  3. ↑ WANG-LaptopComputerOverView.pdf - 1986
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