OT: "half-dollar"/"50 cent piece" Was: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR

[Norman Jaffe]

'Is that a toonie in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?' 


From: "cctalk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> 
To: "Alan Perry" <aperry at snowmoose.com>, "cctalk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>, "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com> 
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2019 10:59:36 AM 
Subject: Re: OT: "half-dollar"/"50 cent piece" Was: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR 

On 06/28/19 13:18, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote (in part): 
> One big problem with dollar coins is cash trays need to be redesigned 
> for them. Maybe if the US got rid of the penny (like Canada has) there 
> would be somewhere to put dollar coins in a register and they would be 
> used more often. 

Canada also replaced the $1- and $2-bill with coins (26.5mm and 28mm, 
resp.). 

N. 
> alan 
> 
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