24 Jun
2014
24 Jun
'14
2:55 p.m.
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014, Eric Smith wrote:
That's not due to being cheap or short-sighted,
it's due to product
positioning. They either offered lower case as an option, or as a more
expensive model, I don't rememer which. That was standard practice in the
printer industry for many years.
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.