Ar 17:54 -0700 1999-07-19, scríobh Kenneth Whistler:
>Remember, on the early typewriters the
>"l" key doubled for a "1" and the "O" key doubled for a "0" as well--
>a practice that carried over into people's typing habits on electric
>typewriters and even computers long after the key (and character code)
>distinctions had been clearly made.
Yes, and OCR has given us back this richness today. :-)
The paper on the apostrophe is coming along. Possibly it will be ready
tommorrow.
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