Don wrote:

> How come everybody gets mad when they see a few caps on the internet?

  Simply because it's *so* difficult to read.  Looking at it another
way, why do you suppose paperbacks aren't written in all caps?  No
contest.

> Im an old timer, and we used to type everything in caps.  Maybe it was
> easier to read due to limited resolution of output devices, I guess.

  No, it was due to the fact that teleprinters didn't HAVE lower case!
As simple as that.  In the Baudot (variants) character set, there are
characters for shifts between letters and numbers modes.  It was a five
data bit code.  Then came ASCII with seven, and the de-facto "IBMSCII"
with eight including quite useful graphics.

  If you don't recall this, you mustn't be that much of an "old-timer"!
I wrote an output driver for my (6809 FLEX) computer so I could print on
a teletype (in all-caps!).  Since I obtained a "DT-80" printer, it was
never used except to fake telegrams for weddings!  Hey!  Who remembers
telegrams?

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  Cheers,
        Paul B.