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Subject:Re: Bar Code vs. Barcode From:Dennis Hays <dhays -at- NOVALIS -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 3 Sep 1997 14:53:16 -0400
In my last contract for a radiologic management system, the US Navy
shipyards used this device to read doseages. We settled on the following:
Bar code = for the graphic symbol on paper
Bar-code reader = for the device reading the bar codes
However, the US Navy persists in calling it barcode, as onsite, as offsite,
and also persists in using the contracted form of identification as Id
(Freudian?).
Dennis Hays
The Burden Lake Group, Ltd.
On Contract at Novalis Corp.
518/862-3465 Telephone mailto:dhays -at- novalis -dot- com
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