[GreenKeys] Slashed O or Zero? RE: 120vdc connectors - opinions?

[Pete Lancashire]

Burroughs Corporation they were the world's second largest computer
company. Zero's head slashes at least in the divisions I worked in.

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 1:28 AM Dave Wade <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Folks,
>
>  Robert, that really helps me clarify things. I was pretty sure both worlds
> exist, because I remember having this conversation on a Geography Field
> trip
> to Swanage and the Isle of Purbeck (which is not an Island) over 40 years
> ago.
>  Whilst I don't remember the specifics, I remember that one of the people
> running the course was involved in computing on an ICL machine at Hatfield
> Polytechnic and I was using an old IBM 1620, posting my coding forms off in
> the post.
>  It seemed though as if we lived in different worlds of computing. She (I
> remember it was a lady) used paper tape but we used cards, and one of us
> slashed the letter and the other the number.....
> ..  but I can't remember which of use slashed which! I do think they had
> ASR33's at Hatfield....
>
> Dave
> G4UGM
>
> I see this has come up before..
> https://circuitousroot.com/artifice/letters/characters/slashed-o/index.html
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net <greenkeys-
> > bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Robert Downs via GreenKeys
> > Sent: 27 June 2018 06:21
> > To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
> > Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] 120vdc connectors - opinions?
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> > [mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
> > keelan at beefchicken.com
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 16:29
> > To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
> > 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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