From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article <10kpa4e$1nl0e$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Evelyn C. Leeper  wrote:   
   >On 1/20/26 17:51, Keith F. Lynch wrote:   
   >> Dorothy J Heydt  wrote:   
   >>> [Hal Heydt]   
   >>> I'll add another one...   
   >>   
   >>> When written in an English transliteration, all names contain at   
   >>> least one vowel.   
   >>   
   >> And don't forget xkcd.com/327   
   >   
   >Reminds me of the "suggestion" back when people got 80-column cards as   
   >their bills for something that they should punch "##" (or whatever was   
   >the "end of deck" code) in the first two columns.   
      
   [Hal Heydt]   
   If the system was really old, it might have been two record marks   
   (0-2-8 punch, for which there is no keyboard entry). If it   
   was after the IBM S/360 came out, it would have been "//".   
      
   I should note regarding some of my prior remarks that the length   
   limitation for names in my ConReg system isn't due to database or   
   storage limits (with the data from 20 years of annual cons   
   on it, the mass storage device is using 10% of the available   
   space).  The limit is: How much will fit on the badge?  With the   
   font size I'm using on a 3x4 badge, that's two lines of 17   
   characters each.   
      
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