14 Aug
2012
14 Aug
'12
9:45 a.m.
On 14 Aug 2012 at 17:08, John Many Jars wrote:
One of these!
http://terminals.classiccmp.org/wiki/index.php/Infoton_I200
With no upper case option.... (Upper case, an OPTION? Egads!)
That's not a word processor, but only a terminal. Back then, it was
not at all uncommon to see lowercase as an option. Most printer
trains in use then were uppercase; systems using 6-bit characters
hadn't totally disappeared yet. Uppercase was quite readable using a
5x7 pixel font, whereas lowercase requires descenders. In the day of
expensive technology, it made a huge amount of sense.
Or is this another case of "you had to be there"?
--Chuck