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From: pardoej@lonnds.ml.com (Julian Pardoe LADS LDN X1428)
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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 10:03:26 GMT
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In article 6@cs.york.ac.uk, ams104@york.ac.uk (Alan Stephenson) writes:

>Just in case you tripped onto this thread and were after a laugh, here's some
>of the words I use a lot for the squiggles on the keys:
>
>! Shriek, Exclamark
[...]
>[ Ope'square
>] Clo'square


In the Computer Lab in Cambridge these two used to be called "bra" and "ket" --
a usage I've not come across elsewhere.  I say "used" because I got the feeling
the terms were a relic of the days of flexowriters and Titan, already dying
during the processor bank era and probably quite dead in the current workstation
age: everything's Unixified and Amewricanized and the last remnants of Cambridge's
indigenous pioneering computer culture have almost gone. [NOSTALGIA OFF :-)]

-- jP --



