From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jaapna@xs4all.nl (Jaap Akkerhuis) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 22:15:22 +0200 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> <70C2F527-099F-4BE8-BBFB-CBCAAAEB40C0@tfeb.org> <20140802034551.GA30208@eureka.lemis.com> Message-ID: On Aug 4, 2014, at 20:04, scj at yaccman.com wrote: > The model 33 Teletypes that were the most common terminal attached to Unix > in the early days had only a single case, as I recall, being primarily > used with paper tape with a character set closely related to the character > set used on punched cards (although with some features that eventually > become supported in ASCII). Unix, however, interpreted the "letters" in > the character set as lower case by default, which was highly unusual at > that time, since there were almost no printers or terminals that would > print upper and lower case. I vaguely remember the DEC LA 30(?) we had as a console to the 11/45. It would only print Upper Case. Related to this is the stty -lcase option that mapped lower case char to upper (or the other way around, I forgot) jaap -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 235 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: