Gregory's Server@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
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 @tubetime oh, uh. The source is Steve Wozniak https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/2833/why-the-apple-ii-didnt-support-lowercase-letters 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"  @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. |
@mcc pretty common for machines and terminals of the day to be uppercase only, so i'm a bit suspicious of that story.