Slashed letter O, unslashed letter zero

[ben]

On 2022-04-26 2:01 p.m., Gavin Scott via cctalk wrote:
> 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.

In Many cases the monkeys can't read. :)
Ben.
PS: Did any common I/O devices have the ALGOL symbols Less than or 
Equals, Greater than or equals , not , arrows and other misc symbols?