Alan Haberman of Barcode Fame Dies

Alan Haberman, Who usered in the Bar Code, Dies at 81

On a summer morning in 1974, a man in Ohio bought a package of chewing gum and the whole world changed.

Alan Haberman was one of a handful of people responsible for adoption of the U.P.C. bar code, now ubiquitous.    At 8:01 a.m. on June 26 of that year, a 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum slid down a conveyor belt and past an optical scanner. The scanner beeped, and the cash register understood, faithfully ringing up 67 cents ... "

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