Roy J. Tellason wrote in a message to THURSTON ACKERMAN:

 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.

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

 RJT> A while ago I was poking around on the 'net and looking at things
 RJT> that people were doing with some of that hardware -- I have quite
 RJT> a lot of it still,  c= chips that were specific to those machines
 RJT> -- and you wouldn't believe what some people were doing with some
 RJT> of that stuff.  For example a web server (!) built around a vic20!
 RJT> It only supported 3 pages total,  or something like that,  and
 RJT> couldn't handle multiple requests,  but it was amazing to me that
 RJT> it worked at all.  Found this stuff at 6502.org,  if anybody's
 RJT> interested. 
I think the pound key instead of the dollar key depends on where you bought
the computer.
I have Vic 20s here with $ on the keyboard and I have some hong kong made
laptops with the pound sign on them.
I saw the web server on a vic 20 web page, amazing. I sold a pile of vic
20s about a yard high (1 metre?) to guy whop was using the boards in them
to manufacture automatic watering systems.


Regards,
Peter 
--- timEd 1.10.y2k+