19 Jul
2016
19 Jul
'16
12:12 a.m.
On Mon, 18 Jul 2016, Ronald Natalie wrote:
The most annoying terminal I ever used was a HeathKit
thing that not
only wouldn’t display lowercase letters, it didn’t just display the
upper case version of the character. If you sent it a lower case letter,
it printed gibberish. It was a good thing that the UNIX TTY driver
LCASE mode output uppercase.
Reminds me of the Apple ][+. You send it lowercase, it outputs the ascii
value mod 64, so you get gibberish...
-uso.