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Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side

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Summary

This Unsung post by Marcin Wichary explores historical PC keyboard symbols and why many iconographic keys disappeared as keyboards standardized around text. It discusses examples from early machines (IBM Selectric, IBM 1130) and notes which symbols survived in Unicode, framing a design-history view of keyboard UI.

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