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From: motcid!ellisndh@uunet.uu.net (Dell H. Ellison)
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Subject: Re: Octothorpes
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In article <11857@accuvax.nwu.edu>, cowan@marob.masa.com (John Cowan)
writes:

> 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 ...

Actually, from a software point of view, we did refer to the 0 (zero)
as an 'A', the * (asterisk) as a 'B', and the # (octothorpe - I prefer
to call it a pound sign, but let's not start that up again!)  as a
'C'!  (These were refered to this way because each button on the phone
had a number, but they were printed out as hexadecimal numbers.)