Reply #19: Lookee here: NPR's worst broadcast ever (re post 13 up thread) [View All]

[HamdenRice]

Notice the date. This was the crap they would not interrupt while planes were flying into buildings right outside their NYC affiliate's window.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1128798

Scanner Inventor Obituary

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Morning Edition, September 11, 2001 · NPR's Scott Horsley reports on the death of Jon Myer, the experimental physicist who helped invent the supermarket price scanner. Myer was working at Hughes Laboratories, when he came up with the idea of using lasers to read bar codes and scan the information into cash registers. His invention has fundamentally changed the entire retail industry.