From: "Anders Wirzenius" <anders.wirzenius@pp.qnet.fi>
Subject: Re: Capitalization of language names (was: Newbie in ADA...)
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 04:18:07 GMT
Date: 2001-10-26T04:18:07+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3u5C7.7$Ea4.477@read2.inet.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: GLpy12.r4@news.boeing.com
Jeffrey L. Susanj wrote in message ...
>processing. So, all things computer would be in all caps. Question, did
>keypunches have mixed case or only upper?
Some had, some had not. On some machines you could choose what you wanted.
Some had the text printed in lower cases in the upper edge of the card but
the holes was the ASCII (Ascii?) number of upper case letters.
(The content of the holes that were punched out was a popular surrogate for
rice at weddings.)
Anders Wirzenius
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-26 4:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-23 13:30 Newbie in ADA Marc Franz Neininger
2001-10-23 13:59 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-23 15:56 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-24 10:59 ` Capitalization of language names (was: Newbie in ADA...) M. A. Alves
2001-10-24 13:28 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-24 16:34 ` Jeffrey L. Susanj
2001-10-24 17:02 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-24 17:58 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-24 18:40 ` Bill
2001-10-25 9:02 ` John English
2001-10-25 13:01 ` M. A. Alves
2001-10-25 12:38 ` John English
2001-10-26 4:18 ` Anders Wirzenius [this message]
2001-10-26 10:19 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-29 9:46 ` John McCabe
2001-10-29 15:07 ` Ted Dennison
2001-11-13 2:19 ` David Thompson
2001-10-24 18:49 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-23 14:26 ` Newbie in ADA John McCabe
2001-10-23 15:09 ` Preben Randhol
2001-10-23 16:34 ` David Botton
2001-10-24 6:17 ` Preben Randhol
2001-10-24 16:12 ` Richard Pinkall-Pollei
2001-10-24 16:44 ` Preben Randhol
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