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- From: eru@tnso04.tele.nokia.fi (Erkki Ruohtula)
- Subject: Re: Commodore keyboard layout.
- In-Reply-To: terjej@edb.tih.no's message of Thu, 19 Nov 1992 11:20:52 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 13:33:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.112057.2311W@viper.edb.tih.no> terjej@edb.tih.no (Terje Johansen,o90b) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov18.235137.17841@cs.umb.edu>, edwardp@ra.cs.umb.edu (Edward P. Piecewicz) writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov17.214421.22889@tamsun.tamu.edu> n029gg@tamuts.tamu.edu (Adam Roach) writes:
- >>>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.
- >>
- >>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.
- >>
- >> - Ed
- >
- >úúúúúúúúú
- >hmmmm...works nicely. Keyboard is a Tallgrass Tech.
-
- Amazing: those pound signs actually appeared as pound signs
- in my GNUS window in a GNU-emacs (with the Swedish 8-bit patches
- installed) running on a Solbourne under MIT X11R5. Maybe there
- is after all hope of some day having a 8-bit clean *IX and Net...
- --
- Erkki Ruohtula / Nokia Telecommunications Oy
- eru@tele.nokia.fi / P.O. Box 33 SF-02601 Espoo, Finland
- (My private opinions, of course.)
- "If it moves, profile it." (Jon Bentley, Unix Review Dec. 1992)
-