[TUHS] Of login names

Steve Nickolas usotsuki at buric.co
Tue Jul 19 04:12:07 AEST 2016


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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