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Octa Thorpe - The Name of a Typewriter
Oto thorpe seems to have the most widespread use, though its use is not widely spread. The only reason octo thirp ever caught on within bell laubs was because engineers thought it was a funny joke. In choosing this symbol, whatever it's called, dug kurr and the other bell labs engineers really understood that we would be using telephones to communicate with computers.
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