Posted on 10/10/2013 6:00:51 PM PDT by cincinnati65
I don’t buy snopes on this.
I’m not saying it’s real, but where’s another 1981 card to compare against?
That sounds reasonable to me. I doubt Columbia was advanced enough at the time to use the same technology as the local supermarket was using for inventory control. ;~))
oh sorry my bad
They started putting barcodes (UPC) on products (Wrigleys gum being first) in 1974.
The original poster just asked whether it was phony. A valid question. You may remember the George Bush service records Dan Rather promoted on CBS? Sharp eyed Freepers helped establish those documents were fake.
Isn’t “fake but accurate” the relevant standard on the left?
“Bar codes back then; don’t think so.”
The only bar codes I remember back then were...no spitting on the ugly women, and last call. Other than that, the bars I frequented were “codeless”.
Hmmm; I remember some of those bars!
This is from a page about Bar Code History: bar code history
"The event that really got bar code into industrial applications occurred September 1, 1981 when the United States Department of Defense adopted the use of Code 39 for marking all products sold to the United States military. This system was called LOGMARS, and is still in use today by the US military."
It may not be his id, but not due to the bar code.
Yes that looks like the photo.
If that photo is legit, the card is fake.
I get why you say that frauds should be a avoided on FR. But i sometimes wonder if going to the dark side is not such a bad idea. The info wars are being fought and we seem to lose under normal laws of engagement.
Forgery.
why forge something that never was
Earlier I looked around a bit but I couldn’t find a 1981 ID example. I saw several links saying it was a forgery, it seems this has been floating around for a while. Got me but the 1996 timeline for Columbia using barcoded ID seems to point to forgery.
....In June of 1974, the first U.P.C. scanner was installed at a Marsh’s supermarket in Troy, Ohio. The first product to have a bar code included was a packet of Wrigley’s Gum....
The Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American History had an exhibit on the history of the bar code back in 1999. It was the Silver Anniversary of the UPC which was first used in 1974 for a six pack of Juicy Fruit.
The crown seems a bit self indulgent, but I doubt it’s his, as there are Christian Crosses on it.
Impeachment File on Communist “B. Hussein Obama,” aka Barry Soetoro, a legal citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.
Barcoding go as far back as 1952. Uniform Product Codes were first used in 1974. So, there is an outside possibility this is not a forgery. There is one way for Barry and Columbia to disprove this. Release his transcripts; unredacted
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