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

corey cohen coreyvcf at gmail.com
Tue Feb 13 11:21:51 EST 2018


The reason for caps lock is that I swapped out my ADM5 for the matching blue ADM3 on my ALTAIR and very early versions of basic are uppercase only.  Otherwise I have to set my ADM to uppercase all the time.  

corey cohen
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> On Feb 13, 2018, at 11:18 AM, William Dudley via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>>> 
>> 



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