Well, learn to do it then. E-GADS.
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From: thegentry.com project <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Saturday, March 18, 2000 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: CAPS or no caps


>mr. boylan, you are correct. that is what i meant by the result of old
>standard... the lack of shift. typing after that period resulted in lower
>case typing. no one shifted after the introduction of a lower/upper case
>standard because everyone was so used to a never having to do it...shift
>key.
>
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>james linza
>managing director
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Boylan P <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 9:37 AM
>Subject: Re: CAPS or no caps
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>> ===============
>>
>> 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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