The "cent key"

Tom Buskey tom at buskey.name
Mon Jul 9 09:11:30 EDT 2007


On 7/8/07, Jason Stephenson <jason at sigio.com> wrote:
>
> 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.



I don't remember if the Apple ][ had @.  It had " above the 2 key.

Now if we can get the location of the ~ and ESC keys standardized.  Yes, I
work on a variety of keyboards :-(  Esp. laptops.
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