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Preben Randhol wrote:

> Sidenote: I heard recently on the radio that the reason it is called
> upper case and lower case was that in the old bookprinting times (I
> think it was from Guthenberg if I recall correctly) the capital letters
> were stored in the upper case (drawer) while the small letters where
> stored in the lower case.  And from this the names came. Can anybody
> comfirm this?

Sure, when I was in high school my brother and I earned our spending 
money running a printing business.  We bought the press and equipment 
(including over 150 drawers of type) from a widow whose husband had been 
running a printing business out of the basement of her home.  She wanted 
to sell the house, but needed to get all of that stuff out of the basement.

The press and type drawers still exist, as a 'living museum' at Eckerd 
College in Saint Petersburg, FL.  You know you are old when they start 
putting your things in a museum!