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- From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Octothorpe Was: Symbol for pound sterling
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.100128.3584@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 10:01:27 GMT
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- pete@minster.york.ac.uk wrote:
- : Yes, check the ASCII guide in The New Hacker's Dictionary!
- : I've seen octothorpe used for '#' in US computer manuals for quite a long time,
- : certainly as far back as 80-ish...
-
- I remember sometime ago (? 12 yearsor so ?) when I had a summer job
- at Acorn that I helped a bit with the Atom Prestel system. There
- was a big set of specifications from BT about what a conforming
- system should do including 2 A4 sheets which showed what the
- approved shapes for the * and # keys were - I can vaguely remember
- that BT used some name for # that I hadn't met before - it probably
- was octothorpe.
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