From: Robert Bihlmeyer <e9426626@stud2.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: need advice from the master
Date: 19 Oct 1998 19:27:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lfr9w4laxm.fsf@mars.zserv.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Chris Tessone's message of "19 Oct 1998 12:05:32 -500"
Hi,
>>>>> On 19 Oct 1998 12:05:32 -500
>>>>> Chris Tessone <tessone@imsa.edu> said:
Chris> An interesting (yet entirely useless) factoid: The first three
Chris> digits of all UPC codes are a location code. All books' UPC
Chris> codes begin with "9 78", which is the location code for
Chris> "Bookland".
As you may already know, the digits up to the first slash in ISBN are
the location of the publisher (anglo-saxzone, german-spoken-land,
etc.).
Lars, are the bar-code-scanner results availiable somewhere. So we can
not only tell what books you're reading, but also what kind of
underwear hangs around on your couch, what food you prefer while
hanging around yourself.
Robbe
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-10-19 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-16 21:14 Wes Hardaker
1998-10-17 21:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-19 3:21 ` Wes Hardaker
1998-10-19 15:58 ` Wes Hardaker
1998-10-19 19:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-19 20:14 ` William M. Perry
1998-10-19 20:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-19 21:20 ` Wes Hardaker
1998-10-19 22:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-19 23:16 ` Wes Hardaker
1998-10-19 23:21 ` Wes Hardaker
1998-10-19 23:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-20 0:03 ` Wes Hardaker
1998-10-20 0:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-20 0:41 ` proff
1998-10-20 0:49 ` Wes Hardaker
1998-10-20 2:40 ` Norman Walsh
1998-10-20 4:17 ` Wes Hardaker
1998-10-20 9:41 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1998-10-20 2:59 ` David Hedbor
1998-10-20 0:28 ` Chris Tessone
1998-10-19 23:07 ` William M. Perry
1998-10-19 23:11 ` Wes Hardaker
1998-10-19 16:01 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1998-10-19 17:05 ` Chris Tessone
1998-10-19 17:27 ` Robert Bihlmeyer [this message]
1998-10-19 19:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-19 21:21 ` William M. Perry
1998-10-19 23:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-20 0:17 ` Stephen Zander
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