Documentation for the AT&T Sceptre Videotex terminal

[Chuck Guzis]

On 21 Nov 2007 at 15:14, der Mouse wrote:

> I don't recall seeing a computer keyboard that *is* lowercase, ever.
> Modern keyboards are generally connected to systems that map alphabetic
> keystrokes to uppercase and lowercase depending on other state, and
> have keys ("Shift") designed to provide that state, but the keyboards
> themselves have only one case of alphabetic key, and in every case I
> can recall seeing, that case is upper.

I'm very happy that modern keyboards aren't like some of the old 
typewriters:

http://www.typewritermuseum.org/collection/kbrd_writers/_ill/caligraph
21.jpg

Still, the Caligraph No. 2 had only 72 keys; the keyboard I'm using 
to type this has something in excess of 100--and yet requires "mode" 
keys to obtain characters.   If, on the other hand, modern computer 
keyboards had the same number of keys as an 026 keybpunch, I wonder 
what our human-computer interfaces would look like today.

Cheers,
Chuck