[Ffmpeg-devel] [Ss][Nn][Oo][Ww] spelling^wbranding

[Erik Slagter]

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 13:17 -0400, Gary Corcoran wrote:

> ROM ?  There was no ROM !!  There were only solid metal characters
> that struck an ink ribbon to produce the characters on the paper.  So
> no, it would NOT have been an easy thing to add lowercase characters.
> It was amazing that they could more-or-less reliably mechanically
> print characters at 10 per second that way.  :)  

Oh dear, hardcopy terminals. I must have erased that from memory on
purpose ;-)

I wonder in what year CRT terminals were introduced (and why we're still
stuck with CAPITALS).