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We got very, very few errors,” Paul McEnroe, an engineer on the IBM barcode team and the author of The Barcode (which is a different book from Barcode), told me.
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At the company’s barcode lab in North Carolina, an IBM vice president picked up a pack of cigarettes with a barcode, McEnroe said, “and threw it across the checkout stand. It bounced as it passed across the top of the table, over the scanner window, spinning. And the damn thing—it read it.
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