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Article #228Re: EuroCurrency
From: Richard Goodwin
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 00:00
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Andrew Berry <andrew@aberry.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > I'm not a betting man, but my guess is that we'll probably re-assign
> > the so-called 'International Currency Symbol' at ASCII 164.
> Ah! I always wondered what that was for. I noticed it was dropped from
> the keyboard with the RiscPC - did anyone ever use it before?!
Yes - it was so rarely used we used it to denote the start of all text
effect commands in the documents for a disc magazine displayer jobbie. I
was very peeved when I had to start doing Shift-Alt-3 on getting a Risc PC!
Cheers,
Rich.
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