Re: Bell & Howell ][+ and lowercase characters

["Simon D. Williams" <email@ld8.org>]

Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> Simon D. Williams wrote:
> > I'm wondering if anyone knows if the Bell & Howell ][+ has the ability
> > to display lowercase characters... mine has a small switch under the
> > keyboard and a wire running to the paddle sockets. I can't imagine this
> > being anything other than a shift key mod, but programs that use
> > lowercase just print gibberish to the screen. I've tried the switch in
> > both positions with no difference... any ideas?
>
> It is still most likely a shift-key mod.  You don't have to be able
> to display true lower case to print it out.  Some word processors showed
> inverse letters for upper case, and some used the HGR display to show
> upper and lower case.

Ah-ha! I've been thinking the shift key mod was done for display, not
printing... now it all makes sense!

> The switch on the keyboard encoder board is used to either require
> control to be depressed with Reset to reset, or use Reset alone.

I'm sure I knew that at some point ;-)

Thanks for clarifying things!