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Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020)
Adventures in vintage computers and retrogaming. Includes articles on classic games and obsolete computers.
[Editor’s Note: I recently asked Steve Wozniak via email about why the original Apple II did not support lowercase letters. Maybe a year prior, I had looked at the 4-bit Intel 4004 microprocessor and determined that it could never be used to build the computer I wanted for myself — based on all the minicomputers that I’d designed on paper and desired since 1968-1970. I just added the 6502 microprocessor and 4K DRAMS (introduced that summer of 1975 and far less costly than Intel static RAMs) to have a complete computer with input and output.
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