> “The original Apple II did not support lowercase letters which is kind of surprising to most people,” Hertzfeld tells Inverse, laughing. “But the designer, Wozniak, made a trade-off that blinking characters were more important than lowercase letters.”
Herzfeld is mistaken: Wozniak himself says the lack of lowercase had a completely different reason:
So, in the end, the basic reason for no lowercase on the Apple I and Apple II was my own lack of money. Zero checking. Zero savings.
Herzfeld is mistaken: Wozniak himself says the lack of lowercase had a completely different reason:
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