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by dfox 514 days ago
During the relevant time there were two predominant layouts for the number key row: “typewriter-paired”, which is more or less same as the one used today and “bit-paired” where the symbols had the same order as they have in ASCII (ie. pressing a number key while holding shift produces a character represented by that number's ascii codepoint minus 0x10)