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Re: What is the quintessential Apple II?

mdj wrote:

Michael J. Mahon wrote:



For my purposes, the only //e incompatibility is that it doesn't have
an upper-case-only mode like the ][ and ][+.  (Only very seldom do I
wish that it had a slot 0.)  But then, it's been a long time since I
used a real ][+...and I'd modified mine to auto-repeat, have lower-case,
80-columns, 128K card, etc., etc.



Sure it does! The caps-lock key :-)

More seriously, lowercase input works fine on the enhanced IIe, and for
the unenhanced IIe you can activate the 80-column firmware and press
ESC-R, which will force uppercase input for Applesoft when not within a
string constant.


I understand, but my partly tongue in cheek concern was experiencing
what an Apple ][ or ][+ user would see when a program is run.  I ran
afoul of that a few months ago by never testing a program on a machine
without lower-case capability.  ;-)

-michael

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