On 7/1/2019 11:54 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Pennies will never stop being minted--the members of Congress
representing the
state of Illinois would not stand for it.
In spite of costing more to make them than they are worth.
The same could be said for Congresmen. :)
On 01/07/2019, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote (in part):
> On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 14:01, William Donzelli wrote (in
> part):
>> There are still a few institutions and older folks that still use
>> checks (like the annoying people that hold up the line in a grocery
>> store, writing out a check), so
USA paper currency used to be the size of punchcards. So, if one were to
have a LOT of it, you could use the same trays, and counting machines,
etc. Do you suppose that Hollerith had a lot of paper currency?
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote:
Actually, Hollerith designed his
From: Fred Cisin
Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2019 6:57 AM
On Sat, 29 Jun 2019, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
>> US currency is very confusing to me. All the notes seem to be the same size
>> and colour, so you can't readily sort them. I mean, I know America doesn't
>> believe in helping people when
Oh, but we are proud of our unremembered heritage, and fiercely resist
change. We still use Fahrenheit. And efforts to "go metric" have made
little headway.
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019, dwight wrote:
Not every thing makes sense to go metric. Clearly bold sizes are better
off in fractional sizes. Also
> On Jul 1, 2019, at 2:10 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk
> wrote:
>
>
>
>>> A "Dime" is one tenth of a dollar. Or ten cents. Or $10 worth of drugs.
>>> The coin is 17.91mm diameter, and the smallest coin in circulation.
>>> A "Nickel" is five cents. or $5 worth of drugs.
>>> The coin is 21.21
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Now that the dollar coin is a different color than the quarter, they don't
end up mixed. But, the replacement of the Washington quarter, that even
included when they were silve
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Now that the dollar coin
Now that the dollar coin is a different color than the quarter, they don't
end up mixed. But, the replacement of the Washington quarter, that even
included when they were silver, with the commemorative quarters means they
are now all different designs, and the Susan B. Anthony dollar coins no
> A few years ago, one of the motorsports events that I help organize used
> PayPal. The entry fee was around $1000-2000 (depending on the type of
> entry) and I think we got around 50 entries that year. Most of the
> competitors pay their entry fee on the last day of the "early entry"
> deadline b
On 7/1/19 10:09 AM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote:
Maybe for you. I did a group purchase of tickets for a club I am a
member of. Almost everyone paid me for their tickets paid with checks.
I help organize motorsports events; my expenses are reimbursed with checks.
Paypal seems to be king
On 7/1/19 10:01 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 17:46, Alan Perry via cctalk
wrote:
I sold a $3500 car once for cash to a guy who sold his goods at a booth
at fairs and shows. He received lots and lots of $20 bills in payment,
so that is what he paid me with. I kept
> Maybe for you. I did a group purchase of tickets for a club I am a
> member of. Almost everyone paid me for their tickets paid with checks.
> I help organize motorsports events; my expenses are reimbursed with checks.
Paypal seems to be king for this sort of thing around here.
--
Will
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 17:46, Alan Perry via cctalk
wrote:
> I sold a $3500 car once for cash to a guy who sold his goods at a booth
> at fairs and shows. He received lots and lots of $20 bills in payment,
> so that is what he paid me with. I kept the cash instead of depositing
> it in the bank an
On 7/1/19 5:01 AM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote:
In every other country I've visited or lived in -- about 30 or 40 of
them -- banknotes are all different sizes, so that totally blind
people can sort by size if they have a few of them. I daresay the very
skilled can do it by absolute, not
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 15:26, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> Checks can be relatively convenient and cheap compared to other options. I
> can (for free) send a check of any size to anyone I want by filling out a
> form on my bank's website to pay someone (mostly limited by my account's
> balance).
On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 8:01 AM William Donzelli via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> That is mostly the case here as well. Most under-40 people do not have
> a checkbook anymore. In my business, I get maybe two payments per year
> with checks - well under 1/10 of a percent of total payment
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 14:01, William Donzelli wrote:
>
> US currency is the most most seriously counterfeited in the world, due
> to being useful almost anywhere. This is why the bills are not very
> distinctive - you are supposed to look at them. Most counterfeits are
> good, but not good enough,
> In every other country I've visited or lived in -- about 30 or 40 of
> them -- banknotes are all different sizes, so that totally blind
> people can sort by size if they have a few of them. I daresay the very
> skilled can do it by absolute, not relative, size. Sighted people can
> and do do it b
On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 at 15:57, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> USA makes a pretense of accommodating disabilities, but is actually pretty
> hostile to the disabled.
:-(
> The "new" paper currency, that is s'posedly good for blind people has
> slightly different shades of the same colors.
(!)
I
On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 at 13:39, William Donzelli wrote:
>
> Your knowledge is way out of date.
I was first there about 25y ago, and last there about 17y ago. The
much-vaunted redesign was, to my European eyes, so subtle as to be
indistinguishable. No, I'm not kidding.
> US currency changed about t
gt; them! Most tell me they have not seen them in years.
> >>
> >> Cindy
> >>
> >> -Original Message-
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n them in years.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> > -Original Message-
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> via
> > cctalk
> > Sent: Friday, June 28, 2019 2:36 PM
> > To: Chuck Guzis; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic
half Of TeoZ via
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IBM 5100 using OCR
I have not seen any half dollars in circulation in some t
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> Subject: Re: "half-dollar"/"50 cent piece" Was: Recovering the ROM of an
> IBM 5100 using OCR
>
> I have not seen
Washington State Ferries still use 50 cent pieces and 2 dollar bills a lot.
After years of receiving them as change, I finally asked why? The
reason is they reduce the number of hand movements by one half. If
you're sitting in a kiosk all day dolling out change, it can reduce
repetitive wris
On 2019-06-29 9:15 a.m., Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote:
On 06/29/19 06:39, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote (in part):
US currency is very confusing to me. All the notes seem to be the same
size and colour, so you can't readily sort them.
Some countries also put Braille dots (besides the different
On 6/29/19 3:39 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> You use nicknames for 2 denominations which most of us foreigners
> don't know -- I still don't know which is a "nickel" (which is a metal
> to me) and which is a "dime" (which is a Swedish chocolate-covered
> sweet bar, of which I'm very fond bu
"Silver dollar" used to be a large coin. (38.1mm) It was the standard for
casinos. When it was discontinued (1935), the casinos started to mint
their own chips/tokens as a replacement. There was a brief attempt to
revive the silver dollar in 1971 with the "Eisenhower Dollar".
It is quite rare t
On Sat, 29 Jun 2019, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
US currency is very confusing to me. All the notes seem to be the same
size and colour, so you can't readily sort them. I mean, I know
America doesn't believe in helping people when they're sick, but it
wasn't until I visited that I realised you
On 06/29/19 06:39, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote (in part):
US currency is very confusing to me. All the notes seem to be the same
size and colour, so you can't readily sort them.
Some countries also put Braille dots (besides the different colours).
Does the US have any such plans?
N.
> US currency is very confusing to me. All the notes seem to be the same
> size and colour, so you can't readily sort them. I mean, I know
> America doesn't believe in helping people when they're sick, but it
> wasn't until I visited that I realised you saved up particular hatred
> for the blind an
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 at 22:55, Steven M Jones via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Two weeks ago I was in London, and had brought my pound notes/coins from
> a visit a few years earlier. When trying to buy lunch, the cashier
> refused my £10 note since new £5 and £10 notes had been issued over a
> year before. I
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 at 22:50, Warner Losh via cctalk
wrote:
> Yea, I'm just the right age to have seen them in circulation and have it as
> a unit of measure for "just bigger than an inch". Sorry for the crazy
> measurement...
It's fine really. It's provoked an interesting if offtopic conversati
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 at 18:57, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Oh, FAR FAR FAR less than 5%.
*Chuckle*
> Most residents of USA haven't seen a half dollar or "50 cent piece" in
> decades. They are as much of an oddity as the $2 bill. They are
> nominally still in circulation, most recent being
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 at 21:47, Electronics Plus via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Just for fun, I went to the bank and bought about $1000 in half dollar and
> dollar coins. My son collects them, and we went through them all. We did find
> some silver half dollars. The ones we are not keeping now go to whatev
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote:
Oddly, I, too, will trade computer items for coins and currency. I like the
green kind with presidents. ;)
Those are nice, but I'd rather have the ones with a picture of Ben
Franklin, who was not a president.
> If the note is in good condition, I'll buy it from you. I've been
> collecting US coins on and off for years, and started on GB coinage when I
> lived over there. Now I collect about everything, including currency, AND
> WILL TRADE COMPUTER ITEMS FOR COINS AND CURRENCY!
Oddly, I, too, will trade
On 2019-06-28 7:50 p.m., Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote:
On 06/28/19 16:54, Steven M Jones via cctalk wrote (in part):
On 06/28/2019 11:11, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote:
Canada also replaced the $1- and $2-bill with coins (26.5mm and
28mm, resp.).
Oh, I know. I was questioned by the RCMP for sp
If the note is in good condition, I'll buy it from you. I've been
collecting US coins on and off for years, and started on GB coinage when I
lived over there. Now I collect about everything, including currency, AND
WILL TRADE COMPUTER ITEMS FOR COINS AND CURRENCY!
Paul
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 3:5
On 6/28/19 1:54 PM, Steven M Jones via cctalk wrote:
On 06/28/2019 11:11, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote:
Canada also replaced the $1- and $2-bill with coins (26.5mm and
28mm, resp.).
Oh, I know. I was questioned by the RCMP for spending a $2 bill that
was in my leftover Canadian cash from
On 06/28/19 16:54, Steven M Jones via cctalk wrote (in part):
On 06/28/2019 11:11, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote:
Canada also replaced the $1- and $2-bill with coins (26.5mm and
28mm, resp.).
Oh, I know. I was questioned by the RCMP for spending a $2 bill that
was in my leftover Canadian cash fro
On Fri, June 28, 2019 18:57, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>>> I saw this half-dollar sized plastic fob on the desk and asked what it
>>> was for.
>
> On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
>> If I may just say -- only about 5% of humanity know how big that is. I
>> don't. I don't ev
On 06/28/2019 11:11, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote:
Canada also replaced the $1- and $2-bill with coins (26.5mm and 28mm, resp.).
Oh, I know. I was questioned by the RCMP for spending a $2 bill that was in my
leftover Canadian cash from a previous trip years before.
Two weeks ago I was in Lo
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 1:40 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 6/28/19 12:18 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>
> >
> > FWIW, I just checked my "loose change" container that sits atop my
> > bedroom dresser. There were two Kennedy half-dollars--one from 1968 and
> >
M
To: Fred Cisin via cctalk
Subject: Re: OT: "half-dollar"/"50 cent piece" Was: Recovering the ROM of an
IBM 5100 using OCR
On 6/28/19 9:57 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>>> I saw this half-dollar sized plastic fob on the desk and asked what
>>> it was for.
On 6/28/19 12:18 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>
> FWIW, I just checked my "loose change" container that sits atop my
> bedroom dresser. There were two Kennedy half-dollars--one from 1968 and
> the other from 1983. I suspect that a great many are still in
> circulation.
For those who have
On 6/28/2019 11:59 AM, Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote:
On 06/28/19 13:18, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote (in part):
One big problem with dollar coins is cash trays need to be redesigned
for them. Maybe if the US got rid of the penny (like Canada has) there
would be somewhere to put dollar coins in
t;50 cent piece" Was: Recovering the ROM of an
IBM 5100 using OCR
On 6/28/19 9:57 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
I saw this half-dollar sized plastic fob on the desk and asked what
it was for.
The big failure of the Susan B. Anthony coin was that it was about the
same size (slightly d
On 6/28/19 9:57 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>>> I saw this half-dollar sized plastic fob on the desk and asked what
>>> it was for.
The big failure of the Susan B. Anthony coin was that it was about the
same size (slightly different shape) as a quarter-dollar coin, causing
people to mistake t
> On Jun 28, 2019, at 10:59, Nemo Nusquam wrote:
>
> On 06/28/19 13:18, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote (in part):
>> One big problem with dollar coins is cash trays need to be redesigned for
>> them. Maybe if the US got rid of the penny (like Canada has) there would be
>> somewhere to put dolla
'Is that a toonie in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?'
From: "cctalk"
To: "Alan Perry" , "cctalk" ,
"Fred Cisin"
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2019 10:59:36 AM
Subject: Re: OT: "half-dollar"/"50 cent piece" Was:
On 06/28/19 13:18, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote (in part):
One big problem with dollar coins is cash trays need to be redesigned
for them. Maybe if the US got rid of the penny (like Canada has) there
would be somewhere to put dollar coins in a register and they would be
used more often.
Canad
On Jun 28, 2019, at 09:57, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> It is quite rare that you will encounter one.
>
> It was later replaced with the Sacajewa dollar. Same problem.
> It is quite rare that you will encounter one.
>
> Then there was a commemorative series (gold colored) of presidents of
I saw this half-dollar sized plastic fob on the desk and asked what it
was for.
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
If I may just say -- only about 5% of humanity know how big that is. I
don't. I don't even know if a half a dollar is a note or a coin, and
that's without getting e
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