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Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020)

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136 points colinbartlett | 1 comments | 10 May 25 21:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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zabzonk ◴[10 May 25 23:35 UTC] No.43949917[source]▶
I had a Dragon32 in the early 1980s. This had a (for the time) good keyboard, a terrible display, and was only uppercase. I bought it because I was interested in the 6809 processor (addressing modes gone mad!). But I think some effort between Tandy and maybe Dragon (the Dragon was based on the Tandy Color computer) things could have worked out better for both.
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1. Mountain_Skies ◴[11 May 25 00:15 UTC] No.43950130[source]▶
Late production runs of the Color Computer 2 had the capability of doing true lowercase. Not sure if Dragon was still making computers by then, but it would have been a simple part swap as both VDCs were from Motorola.