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- From: terjej@edb.tih.no (Terje Johansen,o90b)
- Subject: Re: Commodore keyboard layout.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.112057.2311W@viper.edb.tih.no>
- Sender: terjej@edb.tih.no (Terje Johansen,o90b)
- References: <1992Nov17.023140.22561@tamsun.tamu.edu> <HERMIT.92Nov16215656@am.ucsc.edu> <1992Nov17.214421.22889@tamsun.tamu.edu> <1992Nov18.235137.17841@cs.umb.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 11:20:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.235137.17841@cs.umb.edu>, edwardp@ra.cs.umb.edu (Edward P. Piecewicz) writes:
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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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- >Internet: edwardp@cs.umb.edu - guest user -
- >Member and Activist: The Boston Computer Society
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- >"activist": The BCS definition of the word "volunteer."
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- hmmmm...works nicely. Keyboard is a Tallgrass Tech.
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- Terje Johansen at Trondheim College of Engineering, Norway.
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