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by red_admiral
514 days ago
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> But also, $ is so important in business that every typewriter has one. Some of the older Baudot code ones actually had a £ but not a $ symbol. After we'd decided that 5-key chorded keyboards were not the way forwards, and made QWERTY ones, we still had this encoding to deal with: https://hackaday.com/2015/09/27/demonstrating-baudot-code/ The US version then put the $ sign on what we'd today call ^D, which originally was ENQ (a code that still exists in ascii today, and was sort of the pre-TCP version of a SYN). |
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