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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: 0s | source
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WalterBright ◴[10 May 25 22:50 UTC] No.43949660[source]▶
Sometimes you only had upper case because the character generator was a 5*7 grid which wasn't really good enough to display lc.
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1. kps ◴[11 May 25 14:14 UTC] No.43953971[source]▶
This article doesn't mention it explicitly, but the Apple II used the same character generator IC as the TV Typewriter, the Signetics 2513, with its 64-character ROM.