>> From: "John A. Ardelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> Actually, there was reference to this in the early VIC-20 and Commodore
>> 64 instruction manuals. They cautioned users who were used to manual
>> typewriters to make sure they use the "1" and "0" keys on the keyboard
>> instead of the lowercase "l" and uppercase "O" as they were accustomed
>> to, explaining that using letters where numbers were expected by the
>> computer would probably cause an error. :)
Laying out books, occasionally I get files from someone who learnt to type
on an actual typewriter. So you get years like "l96o" and lots of similar
oddities. It was an exercise to find them all, spellcheckers generally
ignore scrambled letters with figures, or if you ask them to check, pull
you up on every different number ("add "24" to dictionary?"). Eventually I
exported it all to text where I could use grep (pattern-search) to find them.
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