5 Jan
2006
5 Jan
'06
4:30 p.m.
Rumor has it that Chuck Guzis may have mentioned these words:
On 12/31/2005 at 2:46 PM Fred Cisin wrote:
Unless you're Canadian. OK, I'm not actually trying to pick on Canadians,
but when I worked for EDS in Auburn Hills, MI back in '89, we had a
printout of jokes circulating from the office from Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
- dot matrix, and all the ohs were shashed and the zeroes were not.
I was already so entrenched by that time (22 years young) that I had
difficulty reading it for the first few seconds, wondering who scattered a
bunch of zeroes thru a sheet of light-bulb jokes. ;-)
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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HARUMPH.
I slash my zeroes. Always have; always will.
35/40 years ago, I knew a couple of people who slashed their 'Oh's.
25 years ago, I inherited books, bookcases, etc. when the last one
of them died. Is there still anybody alive who does it that way?
Maybe there are some anarchists hiding out there. Slashing zero was
definitely the IBM way and, AFAIK, the same for all other major
manufacturers (just check some of the programming language manuals on
bitsavers).
Slashing "oh" was definitely asking for trouble from the keypunch pool.