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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 11:49:02 +1000 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] terminal - just for fun
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On Fri, 1 Aug 2014, John Cowan wrote:

> > Personally I've yet to think of a single use for Caps Lock and Num 
> > Lock.
> 
> It was essential in the transition period when keyboards had acquired 
> upper and lower case but operating systems only understood upper case.

Hadn't really noticed; I went straight from CP/M to Unix, giving MS-DOS a 
miss.

-- Dave