From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie)
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 17:50:57 -0500
Subject: [TUHS] // comment in C++
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Amusingly in the UNIVAC FIELDDATA character set.   The @ had the value zero
(and was called the master space).
It's sort of like making NUL the command character :)

Amusingly UNIVAC had their own punched card format (same size card, which
was by the way, the size of a dollar bill in Hollerith's day) but used two
banks of 45 round holes for 90 columns.

-Ron "I had a cat named @FURPUR" Natalie