On 24/05/2020 19:01, David Mertz wrote:
The old images I find lack the '1', but not the '0'. What model was
this you had?
Sorry, no way I can remember that far back. I'm not even certain about
the missing 0.
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 1:48 PM Rob Cliffe via Python-ideas
<python-ideas@python.org <mailto:python-ideas@python.org>> wrote:
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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