The Bar Code Turns 40: Ten Things You Might Not Have Known-- Part 3

6.  Will the BAR CODE as we know it disappear?  "It will happen," says inventor George Laurer, perhaps by its 50th anniversary.

7.  LAURER thinks the total transition will take a little longer because it requires stores to replace scanners and manufacturers to change labels.

8.  ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES (the makers of the scanners) takes its name from its product-- black and white stripes--right?  RIGHT.  The company has shipped 11 million bar code printers since its inception in 1969.

9.  "It's APPLICATION SPECIFIC," said Dean Dalesandro of  Zebar Technologies Corp.  "But some things require the simple scan of a bar code.  Imagine (the) last time you took something to return it--that's bar code technology."  (I'm not real sure what this last one means.)

But Anyway, Anything to Make My Life Easier.  --Cooter