On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 18:59:28 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:

>We had lower case on *our* 3277 displays. YMMV.
> 
I remember using a clone 327x that transmitted either case depending
on use of the shift key, but folded all to majuscule for display.  Ouch!
And no caps lock, but a shift lock that mechanically latched the shift
key.  I understood it faithfully imitated the behavior of some IBM model.

It's hard to remember that character generator ROMs were once so
expensive.

-- gil

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