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A Teletype Wheatstone Perforator keyboard from the 1930s, with backslash in the end of the third row Teletype ASR-33 keyboard layout with ASCII character set, prior to June 14, 1966, with backslash on shift+L. As of November 2022, efforts to identify either the origin of this character or its purpose before the 1960s have not been successful
The Wheatstone slip was a paper tape that contained holes in a pattern to control the mark and space signals on the telegraph line. The paper tape was from 0.46 to 0.48 inches in width, (but the standard width is from 0.472 to 0.475 inches) and a standard thickness of 0.004 to 0.0045 inches. [ 3 ]
Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases.
On some keyboards the enter key is bigger than traditionally and takes up also a part of the line above, more or less the area of the traditional location of the backslash key (\). In these cases the backslash is located in alternative places. [4] It can be situated one line above the default location, on the right of the equals sign key (=).
2 Keyboard? 4 comments. 3 RE the incorrect usage... 3 comments. 4 Change. 1 comment. 5 Backslash invention/introduction. 3 comments. 6 Proper name. 1 comment. 7 ...
A typical 105-key computer keyboard, consisting of sections with different types of keys. A computer keyboard consists of alphanumeric or character keys for typing, modifier keys for altering the functions of other keys, [1] navigation keys for moving the text cursor on the screen, function keys and system command keys—such as Esc and Break—for special actions, and often a numeric keypad ...
The most common of them is the QWERTY keyboard, and both iPhone and Android maximize the real estate by having the numbers and characters in a separate keyboard. For simplicity’s sake, we’re ...
This page lists codes for keyboard characters, the computer code values for common characters, such as the Unicode or HTML entity codes (see below: Table of HTML values"). There are also key chord combinations, such as keying an en dash ('–') by holding ALT+0150 on the numeric keypad of MS Windows computers.