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From: cctalk-bounces at
classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at
classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jonas Otter
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 1:26 AM
To: cctalk at
classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Service bureaus (Was: Tek 4051 firmware listing
I've always wondered what the Scandanavians
do to differentiate 0
from O from ?.
They don't differentiate 0 from O- Although when I learnt Morse Code
(at
a Swedish Army facility) together with a group of radio amateurs in the
70s, we were taught to slash the zeroes (contrary to the IBM mainframe
people) and write the Es as reversed 3s. And Swedes always cross the
7s.
I was a ham first and a programmer later, and I recall the conflict between the slashed
zero convention of code transcription and the slashed letter 'O' convention of
FORTRAN IV. I learned to cope. :-)