>For the more advanced guessers: why does the ASCII character
>DEL have the value 0x7F, and what is its exact meaning?

Because you could hand punch a paper tape to the DEL character, whatever it 
was before. I believe there were metal guides that you could clip on the 
tape to do this, but don't ever recall seeing one in the flesh. 

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