On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, thegentry.com project wrote:

> the lower case typing online is basically related to the traditional
> computer standard. it is used by those of us who have been around computers
> from the get go. the only people hung up on offline ways of typing are
> librarians and those who gained access to the internet/computers later in
> life. it has nothing to do with disabilities.

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James:

Surely you have this the wrong way round?  The old computer '60s and
'70s mainframe computer standard was surely CAPITALS only not all lower
case?  Remember very well the sensation that the arrival of the first
stand-alone computers running under CP/M or BASIC produced when they
started to appear in the eatl to mid '70s because there was the typewriter
shift key at last.

More seriously, anyone who wants to write in one case only should use
capitals - which are much more readable than all lower case/


Patrick Boylan

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