On Fri, 8 Jul 2016, Clem Cole wrote:

> In those days many of us, including me, did (and still do) refer to the 
> asterisk as "splat" and the exclamation point as "bang"  from the sound 
> made by them when they printed yellow oiled paper @ 10 cps from the 
> console TTY. 

I still remember when the pipe command was "^" (pointy hat).

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