Re: Beagle Bros and Wonderful disk drive noises

[Tom Wheeley <tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk>]

In article <31cbfa50.302969216@news.cyberport.com>
           tangent@cyberport.com "Warren Young" writes:

> jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) wrote:
> 
> >>>What are Beagle Bros. catalogs?
> >
> >>Beagle Bros. was a Apple II software company run out of San Diego.
> >
> >And their prices were shown in hex, at least in the price lists I
> >remember seeing.  (Think about the way hex numbers are shown written...)
> 
> No, _all_ catalogs use dollar signs in front of their prices -- that's
> what the symbol is for.  Wait a minute...that means that I've been
> paying in decimal all these years...and they never noticed.

pedant point: very few catalogues I have use dollar signs in front of prices

(but of course, they're not BB ones)

> (Historical note: Apples (and other machines I recall) denoted hex
> with a dollar sign in front.  So, $300 was 768 decimal.)

Pascal still does,  AFAIK.

.splitbung
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