JC Penney still uses the bell character as an element separator. Occasionally
when a sales person prints it out you can see them as these little bell images
between the data and I tell the rep that if we sent that print job to an old
printer it would ring. I'm pretty sure they think I am pulling their leg.
On Feb 4, 2013, at 3:54 PM, Pete Austin wrote:
> Ok, how about a series of some amusing tales from the warming of the ice
> age.
>
> One of my favorites was the company that called us saying that they
> couldn't seem to transmit EDI to their partner. It was dial-up bisync
> 3780. The data would seem to *start* to go across, hang, then restart.
> About a million times. It drove us nuts. Took nearly a week before we
> could scope the line and finally realized that they'd used a as a
> segment terminator.
>
> Or, back when we'd actually print out the EDI data from time to time. We
> sent some data to the printer I thought that our IBM printer was melting.
> My god, the NOISE!!! The client had used a ^G for a segment separator.
> Back then, the ^G was the "Bell character" and was normally used to make
> the printer go to tell the operator that the job was done.
>
> Some other fun terms for your amusement
> Cleo
> Railinc
> Zmodem
> Kermit
> T-Tables (I *know* some of you shuddered just then)
>
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