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From: adam@irvine.com (Adam Beneschan)
Subject: Re: the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer)
Date: 1996/10/10
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Date: 1996-10-10T00:00:00+00:00
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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