More broken Apples...

Jim Battle frustum at pacbell.net
Mon Apr 27 09:10:12 CDT 2009


[re: lack of lower case on Apple IIs]

Here is a tangential story.

Early Wang 2200's didn't support lower case to the CRT.  However there 
was a mechanism for specifying lower case so that things sent to a 
printer could be mixed case.  Strings enclosed in single quotes were 
converted to lower case.  For example:

10 PRINT "THIS IS UPPER CASE"
20 PRINT 'THIS IS LOWER CASE'
30 PRINT "M";'Y NAME IS ';"J";'IM'
RUN

(and this would appear when sent to a printer)

THIS IS UPPER CASE
this is lower case
My name is Jim



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