For some reason this brings back memories of the "austral", the Argentinian currency from the eighties. Had its own symbol and everything - too bad it wasn't av

For some reason this brings back memories of the "austral", the Argentinian currency from the eighties. Had its own symbol and everything - too bad it wasn't available in any computer or typewriter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_peso#Austral.2C_1985.E2.80.931991 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_peso#Austral.2C_1985.... I think only newspapers had the means to print that symbol non-lamely. For the rest of us, it was capital "A", backspace, equal sign. That was on a typewriter, of course. Don't remember which hack we used when trying to write the symbol on a text processor. Later on, the zeroes started piling up again (hyperinflation will do that to your currency) and they went back to the "peso" with the more sensible "$" sign. Found an image of the symbol: http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Argentine_austral http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Argentine_austral