On 9/9/2013 10:32 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Merely that it was the first time I saw a computer (it was a PDP-10) writing messages and column headings in mixed case. "Thermal" is irrelevant; merely an exclamation of recognition of the device.
That may have been your first exposure to mixed case output, but IBM offered an SN and TN train for the 1403. I used an IBM type III program named FORMAT, that provided an escape character (cent sign by default), to produce mixed case output. It came in very handy for writing memos and documentation.
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