Ferranti punched tape codes, including Flexowriter. (1961)

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mike-the-mikado · 2h ago

> it has been considered important to provide 10 and 11 as single characters for pence.

I'd not really thought about the issues involved with financial computation pre-decimalisation. Presumably, computerisation was an another argument in favour of decimalisation, but I was too young to appreciate it at the time.

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Ferranti punched tape codes, including Flexowriter. (1961)

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