In <[email protected]>, on 02/15/2013
at 07:11 PM, Leslie Turriff <[email protected]> said:
>Not so much a mistake as short-sightedness; before 3270s were
>available, keypunches could only do upper-case
In the same time frame IBM had software that supported dual case
using, e.g., 1050, 2740, 2741. I suspect that moncase had more to do
with corporate culture than hardware.
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