John, I believe the "capital numbers" idea has already been done. If you
hold down the shift key on your keyboard and type the number keys --
1234567890 -- you get:

!@#$%^&*()

Which is probably what you're saying about now... ;-)

Patrick
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Patrick Santucci
Technical Services Analyst
KVI, a division of Seabury & Smith, Inc.

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Wirt Atmar wrote:
>
> Tom Renz writes:
>
> Good News!!
> The Y2K "Date Windowing" concept recently assigned a patent has been
> ordered
> by the Assistant Secretary and Commissioner of the Patent Office for
> reexamination on December 21.
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Wirt Atmar replied:

> Well that's certainly disappointing. I was planning on filing my patent
> application next week on lower case letters in ASCII -- and retiring one
or
> two years later.

That is more than disappointing. I was about to file my patent on
Capital Numbers!

:o)

Cheers,

John Dunlop

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