Lots of learning ... even if trivial ... fallout from
my question about the slashed zero. I've had a
number of off-reflector requests for the font(s).
BTW, several of them have the zero with a center
dot instead of a slash.
73! Ken Kopp - K0PP
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the old model 14, 15, 19, 32, 33 all had slashed zero too. Very important when
reading tape or page printed with a worn ribbon.
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the old model 14, 15, 19, 32, 33 all had slashed zero too. Very important when
reading tape or page printed with a worn ribbon.
--... ...--
Dale - WC7S in Wy
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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
As a high speed radio CW operator in the Army I was trained to slash a
circle. No one said it was a slashed zero or a slashed letter 'O'. The
shape was not important as long as the slash was there. We also slashed the
letter 'Z' to distinguish it from the number '2', but as I have seen many
Fred Jensen wrote:
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
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:06:45 -0700, Bill W5WVO wrote:
Nice to know that IBM didn't successfully dictate everything in
the computer world -- nor does even Microsoft do so today.
In the early 1960s everyone had their own alphanumeric digital
code. I was working on Project 465-L, the USAF
EBCDIC!!! Aaaahh!
Back in the early 1970s, some of our online data equipment had to be able to
talk EBCDIC instead of ASCII in order to play nice with IBM systems. I never
did learn EBCDIC; I just hoped and prayed it would go away sooner or later.
It did. Sooner. :-)
Bill
I've just found and loaded a font with a slashed 0 into
Windoze ...
Does anyone have experience with non-radio use of a
slashed zero (0)? Do postal ZIP code readers read it
OK? Banking? PayPal?
If anyone wants the font, e-mail me off-reflector and
I'll provide forward it to you. The
We used a slashed zero on DEC (Digital Equipment Corp.) computers. My
experience with them was from 1966 to about 1975. At the time others
were using a rounded O(letter oh) and a squared 0(zero). I found the
slashed zero much easier to use.
Mark AD5SS
In the late 1960's some IBM system programmers decided to use the solidus
(slash) through the letter O to differentiate it from the simple circle
that was used for zero at Sylvania's Electronic Defense Laboratories where I
worked as a writer.
It turned up in thousands of pages of output. I don't
Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
In the late 1960's some IBM system programmers decided to use the
solidus (slash) through the letter O to differentiate it from the
simple circle that was used for zero at Sylvania's Electronic Defense
Laboratories where I worked as a writer.
Ron, I remember that
My recollection was that the slashed letter O was a COBOL thing.
I'd just gotten out of the Navy where I'd learned to slash the number
0, and it was a wrench.
I just looked at one of my 1401 Autocoder books, and it doesn't show
the slashed O (or 0). Neither does the 7040 MAP book or listing.
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:06:45 -0700, you wrote:
Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
In the late 1960's some IBM system programmers decided to use the
solidus (slash) through the letter O to differentiate it from the
simple circle that was used for zero at Sylvania's Electronic Defense
Laboratories where
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