Slashed letter O, unslashed letter zero
Gavin Scott
gavin at learn.bio
Tue Apr 26 15:01:21 CDT 2022
On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 2:44 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> We did have one old-timer who slashed letter O. We talked to the
> keypunchers, and solved it by a discussion, and having him put his name in
> red LARGE on every sheet.
Forgive me, but is this not why we had a place on the coding forms
explicitly for this purpose, as seen in:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/FortranCodingForm.png
where "Punching Instructions" consisted of example pairs of a writer's
hand lettered graphic and how it should actually be punched?
I would have thought this was a fully solved problem from really early on.
G.
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