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Date Posted: 00:05:46 02/04/03 Tue
Author: talkonline
Subject: Why JIMBO?

For the second time,JIM BoHANNON has given NASA credit for bringing BAR CODES to the world. That strikes a nerve with me 'cause,from the way I remember it,BAR CODES were invented ON THE BEACH-(actually lines drawn in the sand),by a man in VENTNOR CITY NJ (celebrating VENTNOR'S 100th year btw!)....yeah-there is info. about this online somewhere,maybe I can find a link.

Btw,I actually got to work with the SPACE SHUTTLE program while temping in the media relations department @ AT&T executive HQ. My temporary boss was in charge of the phone service where you could call a phone # and listen to the astronauts. We watched a take-off in his office and it was really fun!

Once we made a phone call to mission control with some friends to volunteer for a mission when they were recruiting civilians. We spoke to a guy named "ROCKY",he was really nice and explained that they were looking for a teacher for the first civilian in space, then he told us that he was one of the few people who do the actual "countdown" ,we asked him to demonstrate a countdown and he did!-lucky thing that we did not get on board that flight-The CHALLENGER.

Two years later I watched it live on CNN that morning and it hit me like a ton of bricks



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[> found this link on GOOGLE-bar code/Ventnor -- CLICK HERE, 00:15:43 02/04/03 Tue


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[> [> EXTENSIVE BARCODE HISTORY-from ABOUT.COM -- CLICK HERE, 00:20:03 02/04/03 Tue


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