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From: Peter Flass
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 13:24

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Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
> 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
> 

I seem to recall some keypunches - maybe a "recent" UNIVAC punch - that did
lowercase, but maybe it's just a phantom memory.

-- 
Pete

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