Real Old School Programming (was: Re: Where to buy a Selectric?)

[Fred Cisin]

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, Philip Pemberton wrote:
> "Bob in Engineering slashes his zeroes, but
> Fred in Software slashes his 'O's. Mix them up at your peril."
  ^^^^

HARUMPH.
I slash my zeroes.  Always have; always will.
35/40 years ago, I knew a couple of people who slashed their 'Oh's.
25 years ago, I inherited books, bookcases, etc. when the last one
of them died.  Is there still anybody alive who does it that way?


'course about 15 years ago, Microsoft was trying to OCR their registration
cards, and actually asked the public to use their stylized characters!
Not as different as Grafiti, but they did ask for a slash through 'O'hs.

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Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com