tlayoyo5d ago
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Show threadBytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱5d ago

@tlayoyo

Back in the stone age (1978-ish), I had to submit my code to a punch-card operator. I had to explicitly state at the top of every sheet that 'slashed' meant 'zero' and 'unslashed' meant 'alpha' 🙂

Show threadTiggy4d ago

@bytebro @tlayoyo

Writing code in the beginning of the 70s slashed O was zero, then Z and 7 had a horizontal line through them. The punch card team knew exactly what these meant.

Show threadMichael B.4d ago
@tiggy @bytebro @tlayoyo writing by hand in the 70s in Germany was taught exactly so. 7 still has it to distinguish it from 1 (German 1kept always the hook to distinguish it from I), in Z it's less common now, but I can't unlearn it.
Show threadRob Homsi4d ago
@mbletmathe @tiggy @bytebro @tlayoyo Having moved to Canada from Germany, I have difficulty unlearning adding the hook to the 1 because it's mistaken for a 7 here.
Show threadPeter Cock
@robho @mbletmathe @tiggy @bytebro @tlayoyo Japanese one and seven have that issue too I find. I cross my sevens.
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