Why Didn't The Cent Sign or the Exclamation Mark Print 3857

so most of the early cp67-cms work was all done with 2741 terminal keyboards

reference can be found here

delete .... lower case key to the right of the "P" key (found at the above) and cent-sign was used as "line delete" (or rather all characters to the left of the cent-sign) ... the upper case of the

so the univ. was the first cp67 installation with tty33-ascii terminals ... and so among all the other changes I made to cp67 (as an undergraduate in the 60s) was to redo the terminal support to add tty33-ascii support. One of the issues was what to map for the character-delete and line-delete ... but as you can see in the "Typewriter-pairing ASCII (original form)" keyboard layout (same URL and just above the 2741 keyboard layout) ... what is the lower-upper case characters of the key to the right of the "P" key???

i was trying to do tricks with automatic terminal recognition and found that the standard ibm telecommunication controller couldn't quite do everything that i wanted. That somewhat was what led to the univ. starting the project to build our own telecommunication controller ... that could do everything that I wanted ... which in turn led to somebody wrighting an article blaiming four of us for the ibm plug compatible controller business ... misc. past posts