• scarecrw
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    1 year ago

    That’s pretty rough in a lot of ways, but man would that make ASCII box-drawing easier.

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      1 year ago

      it really does! This was the case with the grandchild of the Commodore Pet, the very popular Commodore 64. Check out all the extra characters on the SIDES of the keys:

      So many ASCII sprites baked right into the hardware and OS.