13 Dec
2010
13 Dec
'10
8:49 p.m.
On 12/13/2010 05:27 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> 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.
"Screw 'em." ;-)
I still slash my zeros, sevens *and* zees... (My trip to Germany
influenced the latter two...)
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...
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'!
I thought that was the Ooo Ess Gubbermint... ;-) Their EZ1040 form of
two decades past used a system as such, IIRC... (but I might not)
How many people still use the Palm
"Grafitti" system?
/me ashamedly raises a hand... and not-so-ashamedly wishes one could
still buy a smartfone that recognizes it... damn crackberries...
Laterz,
"Merch"