Y'know, that's not far from the truth. I was
looking at some of my old
Teletype listings the other day and realized it had a line through the O
instead of through the 0, therefore it really did look like we were
using O's for zeroes!
I have an old inkjet printer, a Canon A-1210. Out of ink of course, and
you probably won't find ink cartridges anywhere on this planet. It's a
colour job and has some weirdly low resolution (560 pixels horizontally?
Don't remember -- NOT 560 pixels per inch, 560 pixels in total).
Anyway, this thingy prints the letter O with a slash-like mark crossing
the top-right part of the letter, making it look just like a Q flipped
around the horizontal. The digit 0 is printed as a normal-looking 'O' (the
printer doesn't have enough resolution to print it as a different shape
oval, like most dot matrix printers of the same time did).
And then there was the TI-99 with its square Os and round zeroes. Strange
concept. :-)
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Alexios Chouchoulas '88 ,88' ,88'
alexios(a)vennea.demon.co.uk
The Unpronouncable One ,o88oooo88ooooo88oo, axc(a)dcs.ed.ac.uk