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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 14:10:49 -0700, pyotr filipivich   
    wrote:   
      
   >Steve Hayes  on Mon, 17 Apr 2017 09:28:04 +0200   
   >>We switched to the metric system in 1971, but even before that I   
   >>never, ever heard # referred to as a "pound sign". Back then the only   
   >>thing I knew it as was sharp.   
   >   
   >	Interesting.  Lost in the recesses of my mind are when I first   
   >learned of that use.   
      
   Strictly speaking, the sharp and the hash are slightly different   
   symbols, but probably only professional musicians know the difference,   
   and I suspect most ordinary folk see them as interchangeable.   
      
   >>It was only after the edvent of personal computers about 8-10 years   
   >>later that I heard it referred to as "hash".   
   >   
   >	Which makes no sense, but then computer programmers rarely do.   
      
   I just got out my old manual typewriter to see what the keys had on   
   them.   
      
   Capital 1 was +   
   Capital 2 was "   
   Capital 3 was /   
   Capital 4 was @   
   Capital 5 was !   
   Capital 6 was _   
   Capital 7 was &   
   Capital 8 was '   
      
   No pound (£), dollar ($) or hash (#) key in sight, anywhere.   
      
   I bought it about 1970, just before we went metric.   
      
      
      
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