The old images I find lack the '1', but not the '0'. What model was this you had? On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 1:48 PM Rob Cliffe via Python-ideas < 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. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-leave@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/6RYKJF... Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
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