28 Jun
2019
28 Jun
'19
11:09 a.m.
'Is that a toonie in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?'
From: "cctalk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
To: "Alan Perry" <aperry at snowmoose.com>, "cctalk" <cctalk
at classiccmp.org>, "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com>
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2019 10:59:36 AM
Subject: Re: OT: "half-dollar"/"50 cent piece" Was: Recovering the ROM
of an IBM 5100 using OCR
On 06/28/19 13:18, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote (in part):
One big problem with dollar coins is cash trays need
to be redesigned
for them. Maybe if the US got rid of the penny (like Canada has) there
would be somewhere to put dollar coins in a register and they would be
used more often.
Canada also replaced the $1- and $2-bill with coins (26.5mm and 28mm,
resp.).
N.
alan