Euro on old computers - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

3 Feb 1999

...
   ObCC: so what
did you UKans do to get your funny-looking L on
 computers, terminals, and printers imported from ASCII-speaking
 countries? 
 It's character 0xA3 (decimal 163, octal 243) in ISO Latin 1, and most
 systems that don't have a special key for it map it to the "#" key.  On
 older systems, quite often the drivers replace the "#" character with the
 pound symbol, but some replace the "$". 

ISO Latin on a classic computer?  Pull the other one!

ISTR that the IBM PC had it at decimal 156.  I have seen it replace $, #, \
(Commodore VIC) and ` (IIRC FTS Series 88, which loaded the character set
...
 from disk at boot).  Diablo 96-spoke daisywheels used
either ESC-Y or ESC-Z (Not in a position to look it up and I can't remember what
the 96th spoke
was for, either)

Philip.