From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 02:47:03 +1000 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 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). -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."