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From: burton@parcvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How about bar code printing and reading?
Message-ID: <170@parcvax.Xerox.COM>
Date: Wed, 25-Mar-87 04:30:14 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 25 04:30:14 1987
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Reply-To: burton@parcvax.xerox.com.UUCP (Philip M. Burton)
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Yes, and after several years of use, the railroads abandoned their version
of bar codes, called ACI, for Automatic Car Identification.  It just
wasn't practical to keep all those labels clean enough.

 
Phil Burton
Xerox Corp.