On Jun 24, 2014, at 2:55 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
  When the TRS-80 [model 1] first came out, it did not
have lower case.
 So, why should its printer?
 It was relatively trivial to modify for it (including adding one more RAM
 chip), and the character generator included a crude lower case font.
 And, on the "line feed forced on carriage return" - all Radio Shack
 printers were configured that way. 
Except my printer isn't a Radio Shack rebranded version. It's a genuine
Centronics.