@enf @shadychars @widespacer New discoveries in the tricolon mystery.
I found an old Sholes & Glidden document and got it scanned. I see three uses.
1) “semigraphics,” which we knew of before.pic.twitter.com/8pFFHEYRgG
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Yeah, I wonder how much of this was planned for. Although here’s a new idea: what if there were no primary uses? What if this was just some sort of a universal weird unclaimed character you could mold to do your bidding?
(I don’t buy it myself, since every key was so expensive...)
BTW I don’t know what other character could be used for a paren – but then again tricolon was eventually replaced by $ or £ without any other changes, so maybe parents were not that useful.
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