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Conveniently, if you started with a Dragon 32/TRS 80 Color keyboard (and presumably some others of that time?), the symbols above number N was ASCII symbol 0x2N

Conveniently, if you started with a Dragon 32/TRS 80 Color keyboard (and presumably some others of that time?), the symbols above number N was ASCII symbol 0x2N: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/PIC_0119_Dragon_32.JPG https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/PIC_0119... The standard US QWERTY keyboard does not quite follow this, though it is close (there's some insertions, substitutions ;)).

schoen 10y ago
I see ![1] at 21, #[3] at 23, $[4] at 24, %[5] at 25, and that's all that literally match. &[7] at 26, ([9] at 28, and )[0] at 29 are off by one in their current QWERTY keyboard positions. If we didn't have ^ and * where they are, then &, (, and ) would be in the right places to continue your pattern. @, ^, and * don't fit the pattern at all. I should also have mentioned this amazingly scholarly piece by Tom Jennings, that explains probably everything there is to know about where everything we've been talking about came from: https://web.archive.org/web/20030201161943/http://www.wps.com/texts/codes/ https://web.archive.org/web/20030201161943/http://www.wps.co... Unfortunately it looks like someone else is now running wps.com so you can't get this directly at its original home anymore.
gjm11 10y ago
Yes, some others too. The BBC Micro, for instance. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit-paired_keyboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit-paired_keyboard for some of the history.