It wasn't so much the cost of the print trains, but the lower case only ones were faster.
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 12:34:29 -0400, Hall, Ken (GTI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It wasn't just the keypunch machines. Lower case seems to have been >considered a luxury all around. > >The college I went to was so poor, we could only afford upper-case-only >print trains for our 1403 printers. (Before that, I think they hand >wrote the listings with quill pens...) > >They didn't have semicolons either, which made it rather difficult to >debug PL/I programs. > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Behalf Of Bruce Black >> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 12:26 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC TO LOWER CASE? >> >> >> > >> > ISNT IT TRUE THAT IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS ONLY UPPER CASE ? >> Just in case you are serious: my S/360 green card (undated) >> shows upper >> and lower EBCDIC values. But early 3270s only supported >> upper case, and >> I vaguely remember that 026 keypunches didn't have lower case >> either (I >> think that came with the 029 keypunch). So us oldtimers rarely saw >> lower case in the "good old" days. >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
