15 Dec
2010
15 Dec
'10
4:46 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I'm pretty sure the Micropad OCR gadget (circa 1980) that I once had required
slashing of the letter 'o', with the unslashed version interpreted as a zero.
(and to comment on another thread, I think the 286 Compaq luggable that I had
for a while had a dot in the middle of the zero rather than a slash - I'm not
sure if that was a standard feature or something oddball about my machine)
cheers
Jules
Another skill to be learned was the ability to
block-print neatly and
legibly, differentiating "1" from "I", "0" from
"O", etc. It was all
uppercase, so that simplified things somewhat. To this day, I still
put a line through my "7", although I've dropped the stroke through
my zero as most people find it to be confusing.
A long time ago, there used to be some people who put slashes through the
letter 'o', to differentiate it from the numeral '0'. Are they ALL dead
now?
One of MICROS~1's early attempts at OCR on their order forms gave examples
of how they wanted the letters formed, and included slashing the letter
'o'!