[vcf-midatlantic] Is there anyway to caps lock an ADM3a?

[William Dudley]

Yes, I remember that the stock character ROM was upper case.  I installed
lower
case ROMs in my ADM3 back in the day.  I still remember the funny
non-descending
'j', 'y', and 'g' in that ROM.

But the caps lock key controls transmitted characters, not displayed
characters.
Why would one want to write everything in all upper case, regardless of what
the ADM3A displays?

I imagine that there were languages/computers that only worked with upper
case,
but I wanted to know if there was a specific use-case that corey had in
mind.

I think that CPM didn't much care about case, for example.  I used (and
hacked)
that extensively.

Bill Dudley


This email is free of malware because I run Linux.

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 10:36 AM, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

> The original ADM3a's they only had capital letters until one bought and
> installed the mixed case ROM upgrade, right?
>
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 9:45 AM, William Dudley via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
>
> > WHY WOULD YOU WANT CAPS LOCK, ANYWAY?
> >
> > just curious.
> >
> > Bill Dudley
> >
> >
> > This email is free of malware because I run Linux.
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 9:37 AM, corey cohen via vcf-midatlantic <
> > vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Feb 13, 2018, at 8:07 AM, Dean Notarnicola <
> dnotarnicola at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >  Someone with more experience in this than me may have a better
> answer,
> > > but as far as I can see it’s modifying the termcap entries on the
> > different
> > > systems you’re connecting to.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 7:49 AM corey cohen <coreyvcf at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>> On Feb 13, 2018, at 7:02 AM, Dean Notarnicola <
> > dnotarnicola at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > >>>
> > > >>> I know you did your own research, but as far as I can see, most
> > seemed
> > > to remap caps lock to escape, then instead use ctrl-[ to send esc to
> the
> > > computer.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Dean
> > > >>>
> > > >>>> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 5:40 AM corey cohen via vcf-midatlantic <
> > > vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
> > > >>>> I know on the adm5 there is an actual caps lock key.
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> On the 3a, I can’t seem to find it in the manuals other than
> setting
> > > the dip switch to upper case.  Which is not practical.
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> Thanks,
> > > >>>> Corey
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> corey cohen
> > > >>>> uǝɥoɔ ʎǝɹoɔ
> > > >>
> > > >> How do they remap?  Rewire or is there a dip switch setting I’m not
> > > understanding?
> > > >> Thanks,
> > > >> Corey
> > >
> > > Don’t think that will work on a 1975 ALTAIR, guess that’s what people
> are
> > > doing who hook up to a Linux box or raspberryPi.
> >
>