14 Dec
2010
14 Dec
'10
12:27 a.m.
On 2010 Dec 13, at 8:49 PM, Roger Merchberger wrote:
On 12/13/2010 05:27 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Nothing to do with Canada to my experience, more likely an IBMism.
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?
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...