Where you @?

I overheard a conversation just outside my office today. Two secretaries were discussing their frustration with an old typewriter - an IBM Selectric III (purchased in approximately 1981). They periodically use this typewriter to fill out pre-printed forms provided by courts and other administrative agencies. While almost everything is online these days, apparently there are still certain paper forms that need to be typed out by hand. The source of their frustration was not the operation of the golfball-style, 25+ year old, antiquated machine. The frustration was that some of these pre-printed forms have recently been updated to reflect modern communication - specifically email. This would normally be a good thing. However, this presents a real problem because the typewriter (and others made in the 80s) do not have an "@" sign on any of the keys. If you look closely at the picture below you will notice that above the "2" you will see a paragraph marker ("¶") instead of the, now common, "@" sign used in every email address.

Interestingly, all the other "shift" symbols above the numbers are the same on my brand new iMac and this typewriter.