Re: Nostalgia

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From: Quadibloc
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 06:50

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On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 11:00:54 PM UTC-7, John Levine wrote:
> In article <14be8814-bfb8-47c4...@googlegroups.com> you write:
> >But you wouldn't write a C program on a card punch, as they didn't support lower-case, never mind
> >trying to use vi from one.

> Of course card punches could do lower case.  It just took a while.

Well, yes, you could put the card back in, and type &, -, or 0 over top of the 
letters you want to make lower-case. I would not consider this suitable for 
normal regular use.

John Savard

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