Re: trivia: origin of names for UPPER() and LOWER()

"Randy Harris" <randy_at_SpamFree.com> wrote in message news:QDzsf.1783$UF3.22_at_newssvr25.news.prodigy.net...
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> "Mark C. Stock" <mcstockX_at_Xenquery .com> wrote in message
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>> I once had a client that required a BATES number on every sales order, so
> we
>> made sure we included BATES_NO in the database design.
>>
>> Then we asked what the BATES number represents, we were told it was from
> the
>> Bates 'kerchunker' gizmo that stamps the number on the incoming
>> paperwork.
>>
>> I've sinced learned that this quaint terminology is actually a bit more
>> widespread; from 'http://www.techpathways.com/uploads/BatesNumbering.pdf'
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>> "Note: The term "Bates Number" comes from the Bates Manufacturing Co.
> which
>> was
>> incorporated on September 13, 1890 in New York State. The Bates
>> Manufacturing Co.
>> manufactured and sold automatic hand-held numbering machines. The company
>> was bought by
>> Edison Phonograph Works (Thomas Edison's company) in 1892."
>>
>> And most of us (at least on this side of the pond) still dial the phone,
>> don't we?
>>
>> ++ mcs
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>
> Even more trivial.
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> Edison didn't invent the phone, but he designed and produced the first
> duplex telephone (hear and speak at the same time).
>
>

BTW -- the accent was on the word 'dial'

++ mcs Received on Wed Dec 28 2005 - 12:31:38 CST