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The history of Alt+number sequences, and why Alt+9731 sometimes gives you a heart and sometimes a snowman
Once upon a time, the IBM PC was released.
In the IBM PC BIOS, you could enter characters that weren’t present on the keyboard by holding the Alt key and typing the decimal value on the numeric keypad. For example, you could en
https://www.osnews.com/story/140128/the-history-of-altnumber-sequences-and-why-alt9731-sometimes-gives-you-a-heart-and-sometimes-a-snowman/
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Once upon a time, the IBM PC was released.
In the IBM PC BIOS, you could enter characters that weren’t present on the keyboard by holding the Alt key and typing the decimal value on the numeric keypad. For example, you could en
https://www.osnews.com/story/140128/the-history-of-altnumber-sequences-and-why-alt9731-sometimes-gives-you-a-heart-and-sometimes-a-snowman/
#Windows