On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 1:13 PM Vince Coen <vbcoen@...> wrote:
I have been involved in computers, (operating, programming, analysis,
Test and DB management & Director for IT since 1963.
In most of it the # symbol has been referred as hash for IBM, ICL, and a
lot more mainframe, mini's and micro based platforms.
What the 2000's call it is a very odd happening but there again I am not
a 17 - 40 year old.
Just my 5 pence worth.
Vincent
On 06/01/2021 18:59, Rhialto wrote:
> On Tue 05 Jan 2021 at 20:41:18 -0300, Fernando M. Roxo da Motta wrote:
>> In Brasil is common to read as "cerquilha" (translate to little fence),
> Yes, in Dutch it is sometimes called "hekje", which also translates as
> little fence. The first part of it (i.e. "fence") is pronouced similar
> to the English "hack", so #42 is the symbol for the Hackerspace Hack 42.
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> -Olaf.
