2 Aug
2014
2 Aug
'14
8:09 a.m.
On Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 15:45:29 +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Sat, 2 Aug 2014, Greg 'groggy' Lehey
wrote:
Heh. I never used a 2741, just a 735, which I interfaced to a Z-80 in
the early 1980s. Its native code was neither BCD nor EBCDIC, just two
tilt and 4 (I think) rotate bits that mapped to a position on the
ball.
While I'm not convinced I agree with John,
this would have predated
CP/M. After all it, and MS-DOS after it, *did* understand lower case.
And the CapSlock key was there on the earliest upper/lower case
keyboards I've seen.
Now you're taking me back to the 2741 and ye olde 360/50... The Teletype on the PDP-8 was upper-case, as was the
2741 with the
APL goofball.
Yes, that was my first machine too, with the cheaper ASR-33 without
lower case.
Does anybody who used the ASR-35 recall if it had a CapsLock key?
Greg
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