From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 16:09:59 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] terminal - just for fun In-Reply-To: References: <53db573b.rwfkVi3XCkWueUYL%dnied@tiscali.it> <20140801105029.58656ubc05nkkh2d@webmail.mhorton.net> <20140801203508.GF13476@mercury.ccil.org> <20140802033703.GZ30208@eureka.lemis.com> Message-ID: <20140802060959.GB30208@eureka.lemis.com> On Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 15:45:29 +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Sat, 2 Aug 2014, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> 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... 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. > 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 -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog at FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 196 bytes Desc: not available URL: