THURSTON ACKERMAN wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

RJT> GM> The abbreviation "d" was used to designate the
penny in the old
RJT> GM> British, Australian and New Zealand currencies.

RJT>It still is when you're buying nails.

RJT> GM> L.s.d, using a curly "L" with a cross stroke,
represented libra
RJT> GM> (pound), shilling = 1/20th of a pound, and denarius (penny) = 1/12
RJT> GM> of a shilling.

RJT>I never could figure out why the C64 had that key on it.  :-)

 TA> I understood the original Commodore Vic was the product of
 TA> a British business machine manufacture. The whole line was
 TA> supported on the BBC for a long time.

I don't recall now if the vic20 had that key also or not,  now that you
mention it.  I still have one of those machines stored away,  should
probably dig it out one of these days and see if it still works...

A while ago I was poking around on the 'net and looking at things that
people were doing with some of that hardware -- I have quite a lot of it
still,  c= chips that were specific to those machines -- and you wouldn't
believe what some people were doing with some of that stuff.  For example a
web server (!) built around a vic20!  It only supported 3 pages total,  or
something like that,  and couldn't handle multiple requests,  but it was
amazing to me that it worked at all.  Found this stuff at 6502.org,  if
anybody's interested.

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