[GreenKeys] 120vdc connectors - opinions?

[Robert Downs]

I think that I first encountered the "Slashed Letter Oh" while fooling with
a 1620.  So I have always associated it with IBM.  And having already had a
Ham License and having been for a time a Radioman Striker,  it was a trifle
confusing remembering when to use it one way and when the other.

Robert Downs


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Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 16:29
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Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] 120vdc connectors - opinions?

Computer person here,

In all my years, I have never seen a slashed O represent anything but a 0.

But, don't get me started on the back slash: '\', which is without-a-doubt
the most infuriating invention of the computer universe. I can only imagine
that the inventors of the back slash were all sitting around the exhaust of
a diesel backup generator of one of their computers, and were suffering from
the deleterious effects of carbon monoxide poisoning when that atrocity of a
glyph was invented. It manages to be both confusing and redundant at the
same time.

- Keelan


June 26, 2018 2:14 PM, "Richard Knoppow" <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> Those of us that grew up with Morse code are familiar with 
> using an 0 with a slash through it for zero and a plain O for the 
> letter Oh. The computer people do this backward with the slashed 
> symbol for Oh and the plain one for zero. I've found many 
> instances where the computer folks use a well established term 
> for something completely different. I think they all live in a 
> parallel universe.
> 
> On 6/25/2018 10:51 PM, Paul Birkel wrote:
> 
>> Indeed.  I learned the nomenclature backwards, courtesy of DEC
>> circa 1972.  Took more than 40 years to set me straight :->.
> 
> --
> Richard Knoppow
> 1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
> WB6KBL
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