Favorite terminal At&t/WE Blit

From: Derek Peschel <dpeschel_at_eskimo.com>
Date: Sun Oct 13 14:13:28 2002

On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 05:45:32PM +1000, Huw Davies wrote:
> monitor installed. The only problem with a VT05 is that it
> is an upper/lower case terminal with uppercase only display.
> This lead to interesting problems with earlier versions of
> tops-10 which didn't understand lower case versions of commands:
>
> .dir
> ?dir?

If the display was uppercase only, wouldn't that have been

.DIR
?DIR?

(and I can see how that would have driven even the most
experienced person insane)?

-- Derek
Received on Sun Oct 13 2002 - 14:13:28 BST

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