Slashed letter O, unslashed letter zero

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Tue Apr 26 17:17:57 CDT 2022


On 4/26/22 13:41, ben via cctalk wrote:

> 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?
> 

CDC Display code certainly started out that way.   See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_display_code.

If you wanted ASCII graphics, you changed the print train on the 512
printer.  If you had a 501 drum printer, you learned to translate.

e.g. " = ≠

And so on...

--Chuck


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