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As far as I know @ on modern keyboards above the two from the IBM Selectric[1], released in 1961; the Model D and the VT-52 both copied the keyboard layout. Th
by aidenn0 3y ago
As far as I know @ on modern keyboards above the two from the IBM Selectric[1], released in 1961; the Model D and the VT-52 both copied the keyboard layout. The 1963 ASCII draft had @, despite not having lowercase yet.
Prior to IBM, it was on at least the Underwood typewriters[2], so it was never quite absent.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric#/media/File:IBM_Selectric_I_(4).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric#/media/File:IBM_... Note that the number-row is only different from modern keyboards with the cent-sign being replaced with a caret (the cent-sign was never included in ASCII)
2: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Ernest_Hemingway_typewriter.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Ernest_H...