Euro on old computers

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Wed Feb 3 17:12:54 1999

On Feb 3, 11:43, Philip.Belben_at_PowerTech.co.uk wrote:

> ISO Latin on a classic computer? Pull the other one!

Well, an Archimedes is certainly a classic computer (born 1987), and it's
native character set is ISO Latin 1. SunOS supported it then, too, IIRC.

> ISTR that the IBM PC had it at decimal 156. I have seen it replace $, #,
\
> (Commodore VIC) and `

Most common is to replace #, but ` is not so rare.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Wed Feb 03 1999 - 17:12:54 GMT

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