I took a typing class in preparation for college back in the summer of 1962, and the @ sign was a shift 2.  I have never seen a typewriter in the U.S. that wasn't like that.  At this point I wouldn't know what to do if they changed it.

>Thanks for the help - I had not dug deep enough into the XP Control
>Panel/Regional and Language Options to get at the keyboards
>options. Michele Sayer pointed me in the right direction.
>
>Joe Lore from the US said it was standard there to have to do a Shift
>2 to get the @ sign, is this really so? Might be worth Joe having a
>poke about the extra parameters that Michele pointed out and see if
>there is something he could try.
>
>

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