Thank you Thomas, for this thread, you have exposed your ignorance and stuck in the backwaters knowledge about computer systems to the point of being hilarious. Which is what I suspected at last rendevouz.
If you lack your beloved backslash on a PC keyboard in general, how do you program for other systems "professionally" using the exact same keyboard?
And for the record - I use Norwegian layout, not as messed up as the German layout, but with the same limitations when it comes to that key. And you are too lazy to get network to that box? Seriously?