From: adam@irvine.com (Adam Beneschan)
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: <53jeo1$kkh@krusty.irvine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 53hnn3$474@news.nyu.edu
kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) writes:
>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".
Interesting! OK, if I ever design one of those automated touch-tone
computerized system thingys, I'll make the voice on the recording say:
"When you are done entering your credit card number, press the
octothorpe."
:)
-- Adam
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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
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan [this message]
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
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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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