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From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Subject: Re: the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer)
Date: 1996/10/10
Date: 1996-10-10T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53hnn3$474@news.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.844907172@merv


In article <dewar.844907172@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>Telegraphy codes which were the precursors to ASCII were certainly in
>wide use in 1958.

But did those include the "#" character?

The list for Morse code I'm looking at includes just the letters, numbers,
period, comma, question mark, colon, semicolon, fraction bar, and some
symbols not in ASCII.

Actually, in telephony "#" is called an "octothorpe".




  parent reply	other threads:[~1996-10-10  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-10-01  0:00 help: character to integer Eric Anthony Spear
1996-10-02  0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-02  0:00   ` George Haddad
1996-10-02  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-02  0:00     ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1996-10-05  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-07  0:00       ` the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer) Adam Beneschan
1996-10-09  0:00         ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-09  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-09  0:00             ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-10  0:00             ` Richard Kenner [this message]
1996-10-10  0:00               ` Adam Beneschan
1996-10-11  0:00           ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-11  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-02  0:00 ` help: character to integer Dave Marshall
1996-10-07  0:00 ` Paul Tongue
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-10-15  0:00 the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer) W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-10-16  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-18  0:00 ` Andrew Lynch
1996-10-23  0:00   ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-27  0:00     ` @@           robin
1996-10-17  0:00 John Walker
1996-10-17  0:00 W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-10-18  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18  0:00 ` Sandy McPherson
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