A file that contains data made up of ASCII characters. It is essentially raw text just like the words you are reading now. Each byte in the file contains one character that conforms to the ...

For example, the Hackaday logo turns into an ASCII image nicely (see left ... Who knows when you’ll have a text-only LCD or printer and want to spice it up a bit? Or maybe you just want ...

Unlike images, ASCII timing diagrams are suitable for pasting into comment fields, change logs, or anywhere else that accepts text only. [Update: As the author kindly shared in the comments below ...