In the socialist countries, they used and are using all kinds of IBM clones (hardware + software). It was a common practice just to rename everything (IBM 360 → ESER 1040, etc...).
Of course the "dollar" sign had to be renamed - it became the "international currency symbol" which looks like a circle with 4 rays spreading from it: ¤
Because it looks like a (small) shining sun, in the German Democratic Republic it was usually called "Sonne" (sun).
I’m one of those few people who knew what this symbol meant: the character was a standard symbol in the “MacRoman” repertoire before the introduction of the Euro replaced that code point (high-ASCII code 219, or shift-option-2) about the time of Mac OS 8 or 9.
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[ 4.9 ms ] story [ 26.8 ms ] threadIn the socialist countries, they used and are using all kinds of IBM clones (hardware + software). It was a common practice just to rename everything (IBM 360 → ESER 1040, etc...).
Of course the "dollar" sign had to be renamed - it became the "international currency symbol" which looks like a circle with 4 rays spreading from it: ¤ Because it looks like a (small) shining sun, in the German Democratic Republic it was usually called "Sonne" (sun).