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rbanffy • last Sunday at 9:47 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

This is also why the Teletype layout has parentheses on 8 and 9 unlike modem keyboards that have them on 9 and 0 (a layout popularised by the IBM Selectric). The original Apple IIs had this same layout, with a “bell” on top of the G.

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spragl • today at 8:51 AM

Modern keyboards = some keyboards. In the Nordic Countries modern keyboards have parantheses on 8 and 9.

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Terretta • yesterday at 4:22 AM

What happened to this block and the keyboard key arrangement?

  ESC  [  {  11011
  FS   \  |  11100
  GS   ]  }  11101
Also curious why the keys open and close braces, but ... the single and double curly quotes don't open and close, but are stacked. Seems nuts every time I type Option-{ and Option-Shift-{ …
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