14 Dec
2010
14 Dec
'10
9:56 a.m.
At 9:21 AM -0800 12/14/10, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 14 Dec 2010 at 0:27, Brent Hilpert wrote:
Not that. My 1960s IBM manuals (mostly S/360) all show coding form
samples with slashed zeroes.
(US) Military? I remember one of my bosses (1975) insisted that we
slash our Oh's. Not sure of his background, but it could have been
military. This was an IBM 1130 shop.
John
Noper,
they just moved to Canada. ;-) (I dunno if it's really true,
but I remember printing out a page of light bulb jokes from an
individual that worked for EDS Canada (Oshawa, IIRC) (on the IBM
3090 mainframes) and found it odd that the oh's were slashed and the
zeros were not...
Nothing to do with Canada to my experience, more likely an IBMism.