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

"Mark C. Stock" <mcstockX_at_Xenquery .com> wrote in message news:sZGdnUZKea2XRy_eRVn-iA_at_comcast.com...
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> "Randy Harris" <randy_at_SpamFree.com> wrote in message
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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'
> >>
> >> "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
> >
> >
> > Even more trivial.
> >
> > 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

Oh, I caught that. There are places where young people have never even seen a rotary dial phone. Received on Wed Dec 28 2005 - 12:50:48 CST