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Trammell Hudson

@unnick "No 1 (one) key detected, using L (ell) instead"
28 May at 8:27 | Wall-to-wall | Open on social.v.st
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curtmack

@th @unnick Computer manuals used to have a paragraph or two in the instructions reminding users to use the dedicated zero and one keys rather than O (OH) and l (ell).
I would look up an example, but the Internet Archive is down.

28 May at 13:14 | Open on floss.social
curtmack

@th @unnick The Archive is back up, so here's my favorite example, from the manual for the Jupiter Ace (a failed British microcomputer that ran Forth instead of BASIC).
If you're not familiar with old microcomputers, the mentioned "television" is the standard television you would plug the computer into. Monitors are expensive and $200 was all the home market could support, so most micros of the '80s shipped with a composite output rather than a monitor.
28 May at 19:02 | Open on floss.social
Trammell Hudson

@curtmack @unnick while most of the home micros used slashed-zero, there are some older display terminals had slashed-oh.
28 May at 19:07 | Open on social.v.st
Mark Eichin

@th
I scrolled all the way through this thread to make sure someone posted that... and then remembered that perl's configure wasn't actually autotools, but a special snowflake of it's own. It committed similar crimes, but for somewhat different reasons...
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28 May at 18:54 | Open on mastodon.mit.edu
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