On 22/05/2020 13:28, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 09:43:33AM -0400, Dan Sommers wrote:
I had a customer who was old enough to
use upper case letter O for zero and lower case letter l for 1 because
she was old enough to have learned to type before typewriters had number
keys; that made a real mess of sorting street addresses.
How old was your customer?
IIRC when I was a child, we had a typewriter that had keys for the
digits 2-9,
but for 0 and 1 you had to use the above trick.
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