Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 22:04:24 GMT
Subject: Re: Why americans read # as pound ?

Chris Marriott <ch...@chrism.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>We have the pound sign on shift-3, the hash sign where a US-keyboard has
>"\", and the "\" and an extra key between the left shift and the "z" key.

and glr...@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Gerald Reno) asked:

>Really? You mean there's a STANDARD place for the backslash?

Sure, doesn't everyone have a backslash on Shift-L?

Dan Hoey
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil