How ASCII Got Its Backslash

Short answer: "It enabled the ALGOL "and" to be "/\" and the "or" to be "\/"."

to algol ascii character history retrocomputing text ... on 14 February 2018

TEXTMOD.ES

"The text mode art preservation network". With Amiga and PC collections.

to amiga ascii demoscene pc retrocomputing text ... on 08 February 2016

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