The first versions of ASCII used 7-bit codes, which meant they could attach a character to every binary number between 0000000 and 1111111, which is 0 to 128 in decimal.

Reading Binary Data. Different computers store numeric binary data in different forms. IBM 370 and Hewlett-Packard 9000 computers store bytes in one order. Microcomputers that are IBM compatible and ...

Binary data stored in one order cannot be read by a computer that stores binary data in the other order. When you are designing SAS applications, try to anticipate how your data will be read and ...