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From: cowan@marob.masa.com (John Cowan)
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Subject: Re: Octothorpes
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In article <11637@accuvax.nwu.edu> v116kznd@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu
writes:

>I sometimes wonder if they should have just called those buttons A&B.

Please, no!  Remember that the 2 buttom is already labeled with both
an 'A' and a 'B' character.  Hopeless confusion would result in
dialing letter-number phone numbers, and they were still very much
around when the touch-tone dial was designed.  


cowan@marob.masa.com			(aka ...!hombre!marob!cowan)