[Elecraft] OT - Type font question

[Fred Jensen]

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 slashed zero is yet another ASCII code?

My first assignment back from Vietnam in 68 was to NASA in Houston 
working on Apollo.  We sent our code to the keypunch ops on 80-column 
sheets.  The NASA standard was to slash "Oh's" and zeros were not 
slashed.  Very hard transition for an AF communications guy.

We did most of our orbital mechanics and guidance analysis work on 
Univac 1108's.  The MSC had 5 of them in a huge room with windows in a 
second floor hallway as Ron mentioned.  We did some of the numerical 
integration stuff on CDC Cyber 175's [??] because the double precision 
word length was 128 bits.  The real-time control system for Apollo was 5 
[or maybe it was 6] interconnected IBM 360's ... -95 sticks in my mind 
but I'm not sure of that.  Only the computer input that we created with 
pencil and paper slashed the Oh's.  All the output used the round vs 
square font.

73,

Fred K6DGW
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