[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
uǝɥoɔ ʎǝɹoɔ
> 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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