So, IBM was kind of at a mercy of a de facto Electric/Selectric office standard it itself established in the 1960s.
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That’s how I see the non-international part of this equation. What do you think?
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Makes a lot of sense! I'm still curious what prompted IBM to move the @ to the 2, but that may not have been recorded.
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They needed smaller (literally) symbols on same keys, because they would only have to configure the impression force for each key.
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For example, typing in [.] needs less force to appear the same than typing in [8].
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Too much force on [.] would make a hole in the paper, and so on.
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So on Electromatic they just moved smaller symbols together. There’s a key with ['"], and a key with [-_]. I think the rest followed…
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…including [2@] being where it is.
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Which makes perfect sense why this would only come up with the introduction of the Selectric-style ball
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Yeah, technically with IBM Electromatic/Electric (which involved Selectric), but for the same reasons.
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The shift was so abrupt that I knew there had to be a really good reason for it, and this definitely makes sense :)
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