[GreenKeys] Slashed zero on Teletypes

[tony.podrasky]

GA OMs;

The IBM equipment that I've come in contact with had a DOT in
the middle of the zero.

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K2EAA - TONY
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On 05/19/2015 02:49 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>       Now some Teletype content.  The M35 shown has a slashed letter O.
> I remember this from the 35's we had as computer terminals at
> Hewlett-Packard.  This is actually a Swedish character.  I wondered why
> they did not adopt the long established slashed zero to differentiate
> zero from the letter O, there may have been a good reason, perhaps the
> slashed zero was a strictly American convention where the Swedish (and
> probably other languages) slashed letter O would be more readily
> recognized for what it was.

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