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perhaps read the article. Woodland is discussed at length. Yes, ht did invent a circular barcode years before, but it did not work. He later joined the McEnroe IBM team stating he was very impressed with how much better their work was than his, and continued long after McEnroe left. No one is trying to deny him credit, but credit for the work of inventing barcodes that ACTUALLY WORK is evidently due to McEnroe.



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