On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 02:10 PM, Steve Z wrote:
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 11:02 AM, Fish Fish wrote:
But octothorpe? :)
Until now I had never heard it referred to by that name before! I had to look it up on Wikiepedia to learn of that term's history:
If you had worked in telephony (as I had) - it wouldn't be new to you.
I have heard the term before, but can't say from where.
Totally off topic, but...
In another world, I am an antique telephone collector and phone "switcher".
I have 11,700 Bell System Practices documents in PDF in stock, so for hack value I just searched them all with Acrobat for "octothorpe".
I got just one hit:
Bellcore Practice RB 241-120-040, July 1984.? "Measurement and Data Management... DMS-10"
"In the output mode, the system ignores all inputs (except the,
octothorpe [
#] and asterisk [*]
which form part of two abort commands) and outputs any messages it may have accumulated in the output buffer."
Bill
Bill Lewis