I'm showing my kid how to use a typewriter and just twigged for the very first time why the number one and exclamation mark are on the same key and my mind is completely blown

@phooky I always assumed they are on the same key since shift sets bit five and 1 is 0x21 while ! is 0x31 in ascii.

@th @phooky that's a great justification for why the shifted 2 symbol should be " (as on a UK keyboard) not @ as they do in the US.

holds for 3, 4, 5 as well, but oddly not 6

@dan @phooky @th Yeah but ...

(Mechanical Teletype Model 35 ASR keyboard ... where that mattered a Lot.)

@elb @phooky @th asr33 slightly predates me :-) I wonder if the placement of & and ' was conventional for the time (if "conventional" was even a thing back in those days)