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Subject: Re: User Interface Standards -- *Keyboards!*
Message-ID: <29738@ism780c.isc.com>
Date: 18 Jul 89 01:21:43 GMT
References: <115518@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <29607@ism780c.isc.com> <1989Jul15.034605.28654@cs.rochester.edu>
Reply-To: marv@ism780.UUCP (Marvin Rubenstein)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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In article <1989Jul15.034605.28654@cs.rochester.edu> quiroz@cs.rochester.edu (Cesar Quiroz) writes:
>
>In <29607@ism780c.isc.com>, marv@ism780.UUCP (Marvin Rubenstein) wrote:
>| The Feb. 1868 issue of CACM, page 126, has an article titled "Proposed USA
>           ????
>| Standard, General Purpose Alphanumeric Keyboard Arrangement for Information
[the rest of my original posting deleted]

>
>If true as quoted (doubt it:-), I assume the standard in question is
>now obsolete anyway.  Mind rechecking the year?

Why do you doubt it?  I had the issue of CACM in front of me when I wrote
the original note.  The the date is correct.  1968, 21 years ago!  It seems
I have an unusual memory for this kind of computer related trivia.  As
I said in my original note, I don't know if the standard was adopted.  If
it was, I also don't now if it is still in effect.  But it doesn't matter,
no one followed it.

If any one is interested, I can give you the reference to the proposed
standard for hand written programs.  The standard was proposed so that
readers could tell the difference between the letter, oh, and the numeral,
zero. (No, this is not a joke)

    Marv Rubinstein