Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!killer!vector!nobody From: MYERSTON@KL.SRI.COM (HECTOR MYERSTON) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Octothorpe source Message-ID:Date: 21 Nov 88 17:19:28 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 9 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 8, issue 184, message 6 All my Bell System references call # The Number Sign (or Pound). The only times I see it called an Octothrope is in Northern Telecom Inc publications talking about Digipulse Dialing, "their name" for DTMF. The Japanese routinely call it a "Sharp". Obscure to me, logical to the musically inclined. +HECTOR+ -------