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From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ronald Natalie)
Subject: [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS)
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:05:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A3AEFA5-8B6B-472D-85F1-1636646418D9@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5E25E523-D712-4C31-884C-6CCE3CC9EE9C@tfeb.org>

We had teletypes that went both ways.    Some had the arrows and some had the caret/underscore.

> On Jul 12, 2016, at 1:53 PM, Tim Bradshaw <tfb at tfeb.org> wrote:
> 
> On 10 Jul 2016, at 02:46, Steve Nickolas <usotsuki at buric.co> wrote:
> 
>> Some 8-bit computers used up arrow for ^ even into the 80s, I think Radio Shack's did at least.
> 
> I'm fairly (but not completely) sure that the Xerox Lisp machines had caret as up arrow, and they certainly had left arrow for underscore.  They persisted into the late 80s when I used them.  I'm not sure what appeared on the keyboards, which may have been more modern than the character set used by the system, since the same hardware was sold with different software on it.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-12 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-10  1:41 Norman Wilson
2016-07-10  1:46 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-10  1:52   ` John Cowan
2016-07-12 17:53   ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-07-12 18:05     ` Ronald Natalie [this message]
2016-07-13  9:24       ` Wesley Parish
2016-07-13 10:09         ` Joerg Schilling
2016-07-10 21:10 ` Sven Mascheck
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-07-08 17:36 Norman Wilson
2016-07-08 14:52 Clem Cole
2016-07-08 14:59 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-08 15:47 ` Nemo
2016-07-08 16:31   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-08 20:29   ` Clem Cole
2016-07-08 16:27 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-08 18:00 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-08 18:23 ` Random832
2016-07-08 20:49   ` Clem Cole
2016-07-08 21:09     ` Ron Natalie
2016-07-08 21:16       ` John Cowan
2016-07-08 21:45         ` Ron Natalie
2016-07-09 16:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-09 17:03   ` John Cowan
2016-07-09 17:21     ` Milo Velimirovic
2016-07-08 11:25 Norman Wilson
2016-07-08 13:16 ` John Cowan
2016-07-08 14:06   ` Brantley Coile
2016-07-02  0:12 [TUHS] MS-DOS Norman Wilson
2016-07-02  1:13 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-07  5:02   ` [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-07 13:43     ` Nemo
2016-07-07 14:11       ` John Cowan
2016-07-07 14:18       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-07 23:47         ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-08  5:40           ` scj
2016-07-08  7:06             ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-08 11:09           ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-09  0:03             ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-09 14:24               ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-09 16:38                 ` John Cowan
2016-07-11 11:20           ` Tony Finch
2016-07-11 11:54             ` Nemo
2016-07-11 13:15             ` Joerg Schilling

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