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

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 at 22:55, Steven M Jones via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> Two weeks ago I was in London, and had brought my pound notes/coins from
> a visit a few years earlier. When trying to buy lunch, the cashier
> refused my £10 note since new £5 and £10 notes had been issued over a
> year before. I was advised I could change it at a bank...

Yep. I had this at Easter last year.

The first time I took my Czech girlfriend to visit England.

The airport bus refused my "tenner".

I have been away long enough, they've changed the money. This shook me
as well as annoying me.


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