1 Jan
2006
1 Jan
'06
6:19 p.m.
On 01/01/2006, at 8:22 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote:
Well, on the first machine I had that used a Courier-type font, you
typed the lower-case-letter-L for the numeral 1 and you typed
an uppercase-letter-O for the numeral 0. So they were not only
hard to distinguish, they were in fact identical...
My portable typewriter is like that. To tie in with the original
thread I can't recall whether the Selectric with the Courier ball
used the same characters for 1 and l? I can't check as I got rid of
mine a few years ago (having made quite a bit of money typing
technical documents in the days before word processing was
affordable). For my own work I had access to a DECsystem-10, a word
processing package known as Cicero and a IBM 2741 running at 134.7
baud which was the start of the slippery slope away from typewriters.
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