Slashed letter O, unslashed letter zero
ben
bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
Tue Apr 26 22:10:50 CDT 2022
On 2022-04-26 8:48 p.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> CDC actually adopted OCR-A as their official internal font. My office
> typewriter (Olivetti) had such a font. I hated it.
>
Well you can't have them use IBM equipment.
Looking at some IBM DOC's from the 60's
they had boxed tables for computer formats
but using real box characters.
+----+----+
| xxx| xxx|
+----+----+
How did they print that?
> OCR-B was a bit less offensive, but the difference between capital oh
> and zero was less apparent.
>
> --Chuck
>
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OWERCASEISTHEHAN
DWRITINGFONT
BEN
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