[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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