> and colon has a dedicated key Well, it's :* and ;+ and so on, along with the now-unusual shifted number row: a bit-paired keyboard¹, matching ASCII, which wa

> and colon has a dedicated key Well, it's :* and ;+ and so on, along with the now-unusual shifted number row: a bit-paired keyboard¹, matching ASCII, which was the practical thing to do when your terminal was hard-wired. ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit-paired_keyboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit-paired_keyboard