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@tubetime did you see the explanation that the reason why the apple ii didn't just have a shift key to begin with was that Wozniak was dead broke while he was designing it and couldn't afford an appropriate keyboard to test with

16 Dec 2023 at 3:05 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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@mcc pretty common for machines and terminals of the day to be uppercase only, so i'm a bit suspicious of that story.

16 Dec 2023 at 3:15 | Open on mastodon.social
mcc

@tubetime oh, uh. The source is Steve Wozniak vintagecomputing.com/index.php

But it *would* be accurate to say another way of framing this story is "the machine wozniak was using while making the apple ii was uppercase only, so the apple ii inherited that"

16 Dec 2023 at 4:04 | Open on mastodon.social
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@mcc huh, well there you go, straight from the horse's mouth. he does explain a little bit more--that he could have added lowercase but then he would have needed to fix BASIC, which he had already coded up by hand and couldn't easily redo.

16 Dec 2023 at 17:38 | Open on mastodon.social
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