Re: What is the quintessential Apple II?

["mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

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.

Matt