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@[email protected] @[email protected] Litton and RCA designs are quite pleasing. I wonder what the committee's reasons were for selecting IBM in the end. Presumably it just worked better. Also wondering if RCA wound up retaliating at all as they threatened.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] likely nothing circular was seriously considered. You could print a usable vertical bar barcode on a 9-pin dot matrix printer.
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Going to guess that IBM was shortlisted for having the physical numbers under the bar code with biggish and easily read font. Back in the day I remember cashiers having to resort to it with some regularity, perhaps due to the scanners not being as advanced back then.