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- From: edwardp@ra.cs.umb.edu (Edward P. Piecewicz)
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- Subject: Commodore keyboard layout.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.235137.17841@cs.umb.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 23:51:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.214421.22889@tamsun.tamu.edu> n029gg@tamuts.tamu.edu (Adam Roach) writes:
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- >The Commodore 64's keyboard was identical around the world.
- >I'm sure that if we had off world colonies using sanskrit,
- >the same '64's would have been shipped there. This goes a long way
- >towards explaining why we had a British pound symbol on our '64's
- >over here in the States. Additionally, I might like to point out
- >that the layout of the C-64's keyboard had almost nothing to
- >do with prevailing standards for typewriter keyboards.
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- Was the British Pound key on the U.S. C64 computers, intentional?? It was
- the first (and still is) the computer I ever saw with a Pound key on it.
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- - Ed
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