From: thomas.paulsen at firemail.de (Thomas Paulsen)
Subject: [COFF] On having a slash
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 15:21:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7a633ed7a5afc399f895825dddfb0a53@firemail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2004131832580.1535@aneurin.horsfall.org>
'Way back then, when dinosaurs strode the earth and System/360 reigned
supreme, we were taught to slash our zeros and sevens (can't quite find
the glyphs for them right now) in order to distinguish them from Oscars
and Ones for the benefit of the keypunch girls...'
I slash both zeros and sevens too. With regards to the zero I learned it at the university in the 70ths,
however I believe that slashing sevens I learned already in the school days(60ths) or even at home
by my parents (50ths).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-13 13:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-13 9:01 dave
2020-04-13 11:30 ` david
2020-04-13 12:38 ` clemc
2020-04-13 14:10 ` mike.ab3ap
2020-04-13 14:21 ` thomas.paulsen
2020-04-13 14:23 ` imp
2020-04-13 12:53 ` paul
2020-04-13 14:12 ` imp
2020-04-13 15:29 ` krewat
2020-04-13 15:40 ` pdagog
2020-04-13 13:21 ` thomas.paulsen [this message]
2020-04-13 13:23 ` cym224
2020-04-13 13:36 `
2020-04-13 17:35 ` paul
2020-04-13 22:09 ` dave
2020-04-14 13:34 ` dfawcus+lists-coff
2020-04-14 14:23 ` gdmr
2020-04-13 22:12 ` krewat
2020-04-13 23:21 ` dave
2020-04-14 0:12 ` grog
2020-04-14 2:57 ` paul.allan.palmer
2020-04-13 15:14 rudi.j.blom
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