From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas)
Subject: [TUHS] Of login names
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 14:12:07 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.02.1607181411040.2763@frieza.hoshinet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2EC3A31B-D82A-411E-ACBB-B77328036874@ronnatalie.com>
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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.
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-18 15:44 Doug McIlroy
2016-07-18 15:50 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-07-18 18:03 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-18 18:12 ` Steve Nickolas [this message]
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2016-07-18 14:35 Norman Wilson
2016-07-18 14:44 ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-07-18 14:55 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-18 18:07 ` Steve Simon
2016-07-19 9:50 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-26 12:45 ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-07-26 13:07 ` George Ross
[not found] <mailman.79.1468802270.30583.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2016-07-18 14:06 ` David
2016-07-19 12:41 ` Aaron Jackson
2016-10-19 20:53 ` Michael-John Turner
2016-10-19 22:35 ` Aaron Jackson
2016-07-17 12:05 Norman Wilson
2016-07-17 12:32 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-17 23:09 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-18 4:06 ` scj
2016-07-18 4:09 ` Larry McVoy
2016-07-18 10:42 ` William Cheswick
2016-07-17 8:06 Rudi Blom
2016-07-17 8:16 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-17 11:42 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-17 22:59 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-18 0:37 ` Brantley Coile
2016-07-18 10:51 ` William Cheswick
2016-07-16 16:54 Dave Horsfall
2016-07-16 23:04 ` Paul Osborne
2016-07-18 12:24 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-18 13:21 ` John Cowan
2016-07-17 2:56 ` Win Treese
2016-07-17 6:39 ` Tim Bradshaw
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