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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 06:39:35 +1000 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] terminal - just for fun
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On Mon, 4 Aug 2014, Jaap Akkerhuis wrote:

> Related to this is the stty -lcase option that mapped lower case char to 
> upper (or the other way around, I forgot)

Wait until you've used a VT-05 as the console; 72x20, upper case on 
display with few symbols (so Unix showed "{" as "\(" for example), a 
switch that told it to send lower case, and another switch that echoed 
locally (useful for passwords).

And the upper-case printers that overstruck "{" as "(\b-"....  Those poxy 
things were about as Unix-hostile as you could get.

-- Dave