The "cent key"

[Jason Stephenson]

VirginSnow at vfemail.net wrote:

> Now you have my $.02.  (Why isn't there a cent key on the IMB keyboard??)

The spot where most typewriters (even those from IBM) have the cent key 
is taken up by ^ on most computer keyboards. Interestingly, the cent 
character is not a part of the basic ASCII character set. A bit 
surprising, really, when you consider that until email came along the @ 
was relegated to mostly archaic uses as a short hand for "each."

Just my 2d.