Re: Zero on the keyboard

In article <ffo55b$1bpb$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> magidin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Arturo Magidin) writes:
In article <1193252746.514774.87540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
mensanator@xxxxxxxxxxx <mensanator@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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And many early typewriters didn't even have a zero, you used a capital
"o".

Not just early; "the" electric typewriter in my home in the 70s (when
I was growing up), purchased in the early 70s, had no zero and no one;
you were expected to use a capital "o" and lower case ell,
respectively.

Not just typewriters. Early Honeywell-Bull computers when using punched
cards had a card code where O and 0 had the same code, as had I and 1.
I do not know exactly when that coding was changed, but it must have been
somewhere in the sixties.
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