He also served, with Hugh McGregor Ross and others, on the separate committee which defined the ASCII character codeset in 1960, contributing several characters which had not previously been used by computers including the ESCape character, the backslash character, and the curly bracket characters.
Early reference to the term "escape character" is found in Bob Bemer's IBM technical publications.
SpongeBob SquarePants (character) | Jerry Seinfeld (character) | Xuanzang (fictional character) | The Dillinger Escape Plan | Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape | Sonic the Hedgehog (character) | Player character | Forrest Gump (character) | Escape from Alcatraz (film) | Escape from Alcatraz | player character | Noddy (character) | Macbeth (character) | Huckleberry Finn (character) | Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay | Escape from Monkey Island | Escape | Dolly Varden (character) | Tintin (character) | Thousand Character Classic | The Escape Engine | Terminator (character) | Rocky Balboa (character) | Prince Caspian (character) | Ophelia (character) | Non-player character | No Escape | Nikita (Nikita character) | moral character | Mooncat (Childrens TV character) |
In 1985, Dale Heatherington was issued a patent entitled "Modem with Improved Escape Sequence Mechanism to Prevent Escape in Response to Random Occurrence of Escape Character in Transmitted Data," and the patent was assigned to Hayes Microcomputer Products.