18 Jul
2016
18 Jul
'16
3:44 p.m.
I heard that Bob Morris was asked for his initials, he
said “rm”, they insisted on a middle initial, which he didn’t have, so he supplied “h”,
hence “rhm”.
True in principle, but when it happened and who "they" were, is lore
beyond my ken. I presume it was before he joined Bell Labs. At the
labs, interoffice communications typically used initials, so the
DMR, JFO, RHM convention was well established. Only the affectation
of lower-case only was new--and that was the fault of unicase Model
33. Who wanted to SHOUT EVERYTHING they wrote, or litter it with escapes?
doug
18 Jul
18 Jul
3:50 p.m.
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Doug McIlroy <doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
DMR, JFO, RHM convention was well established. Only
the affectation
of lower-case only was new--and that was the fault of unicase Model
33. Who wanted to SHOUT EVERYTHING they wrote, or litter it with escapes?
In the 1970s, I had a VT50a at home 12 lines @ 80 cols upper case only.
I used it with a self make 300 baud modem and later got a lower case character
ROM to sold un top of the upper case character ROM.
So there is more than just one upper case only terminal.
Jörg
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6:03 p.m.
New subject: Of login names
In the 1970s, I had a VT50a at home 12 lines @ 80 cols upper case only.
I used it with a self make 300 baud modem and later got a lower case character
ROM to sold un top of the upper case character ROM.
The most annoying terminal I ever used was a HeathKit thing that not only wouldn’t display
lowercase letters, it didn’t just display the upper case version of the character.
If you sent it a lower case letter, it printed gibberish. It was a good thing that the
UNIX TTY driver LCASE mode output uppercase.
The thing also had a keyboard of identical keys and the assembler was given stickers for
each letter to stick to each one.
6:12 p.m.
New subject: Of login names
On Mon, 18 Jul 2016, Ronald Natalie wrote:
The most annoying terminal I ever used was a HeathKit
thing that not
only wouldn’t display lowercase letters, it didn’t just display the
upper case version of the character. If you sent it a lower case letter,
it printed gibberish. It was a good thing that the UNIX TTY driver
LCASE mode output uppercase.
Reminds me of the Apple ][+. You send it lowercase, it outputs the ascii
value mod 64, so you get gibberish...
-uso.
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