In answer to Ken's question, my guess is that font doesn't matter with
Paypal, banking, or anybody else. The ASCII codes for zero and the
letter O are different and that's all any confuser cares about. How it
is rendered on the screen or on paper is not relevant. Unless of course
the slashed zero is yet another ASCII code?
My first assignment back from Vietnam in 68 was to NASA in Houston
working on Apollo. We sent our code to the keypunch ops on 80-column
sheets. The NASA standard was to slash "Oh's" and zeros were not
slashed. Very hard transition for an AF communications guy.
We did most of our orbital mechanics and guidance analysis work on
Univac 1108's. The MSC had 5 of them in a huge room with windows in a
second floor hallway as Ron mentioned. We did some of the numerical
integration stuff on CDC Cyber 175's [??] because the double precision
word length was 128 bits. The real-time control system for Apollo was 5
[or maybe it was 6] interconnected IBM 360's ... -95 sticks in my mind
but I'm not sure of that. Only the computer input that we created with
pencil and paper slashed the Oh's. All the output used the round vs
square font.
73,
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2008 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 08
- www.cqp.org
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