Favorite terminal At&t/WE Blit

From: Huw Davies <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Mon Oct 14 00:41:00 2002

At 12:14 PM 13/10/2002 -0700, Derek Peschel wrote:
>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)?

Indeed you're right and you can see that the insanity from that VT05
20 years ago still persists :-)


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