Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!dave From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Artificially Different Products Message-ID: <1663@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Jul-83 01:17:30 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.1663 Posted: Sun Jul 3 01:17:30 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Jul-83 02:08:15 EDT References: <5064@cca.UUCP> Organization: CSRG, University of Toronto Lines: 10 Apparently, when Lear-Siegler first came out with the ADM3-A (ADM, by the way, stands for American Dream Machine(!)), it was so (relatively) cheap that they introduced it as an upper-case terminal as a way of explaining the cheap price. Only later did people discover that you can flip one of the buttons under the screw-on panel to get lower case. This is what a (non-UNIX, non-net) friend tells me. Can anyone confirm? Dave Sherman Toronto