[TUHS] terminal - just for fun

[Jaap Akkerhuis]

On Aug 4, 2014, at 20:04, scj at yaccman.com wrote:

> The model 33 Teletypes that were the most common terminal attached to Unix
> in the early days had only a single case, as I recall, being primarily
> used with paper tape with a character set closely related to the character
> set used on punched cards (although with some features that eventually
> become supported in ASCII).  Unix, however, interpreted the "letters" in
> the character set as lower case by default, which was highly unusual at
> that time, since there were almost no printers or terminals that would
> print upper and lower case.

I vaguely remember the DEC LA 30(?) we had as a console to the
11/45.  It would only print Upper Case.

Related to this is the stty -lcase option that mapped lower case
char to upper (or the other way around, I forgot)

	jaap
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