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

Alan Perry aperry at snowmoose.com
Fri Jun 28 13:11:48 CDT 2019



> On Jun 28, 2019, at 10:59, Nemo Nusquam <cym224 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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. 
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> Canada also replaced the $1- and $2-bill with coins (26.5mm and 28mm, resp.).

Oh, I know. I was questioned by the RCMP for spending a $2 bill that was in my leftover Canadian cash from a previous trip years before.

alan

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