Hard/Soft sectoring

From: Alexios Chouchoulas <alexios_at_vennea.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri Apr 18 20:08:47 1997

> Y'know, that's not far from the truth. I was looking at some of my old
> Teletype listings the other day and realized it had a line through the O
> instead of through the 0, therefore it really did look like we were
> using O's for zeroes!

  I have an old inkjet printer, a Canon A-1210. Out of ink of course, and
you probably won't find ink cartridges anywhere on this planet. It's a
colour job and has some weirdly low resolution (560 pixels horizontally?
Don't remember -- NOT 560 pixels per inch, 560 pixels in total).

  Anyway, this thingy prints the letter O with a slash-like mark crossing
the top-right part of the letter, making it look just like a Q flipped
around the horizontal. The digit 0 is printed as a normal-looking 'O' (the
printer doesn't have enough resolution to print it as a different shape
oval, like most dot matrix printers of the same time did).

  And then there was the TI-99 with its square Os and round zeroes. Strange
concept. :-)

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