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Brooklyn Park, MN 55428

phone: 763-535-7277
toll free: 888-646-7277
fax: 763-535-7322

 
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ASCII - Acronym for Amercian Standard Code for Information Interchange, the international standard codes that are used by most computers to symbolize letters, numbers, punctuation and certain special commands.