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Old 5th Jun 2017, 9:15 pm   #21
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Default Re: CAPS - how to change to lower case

Caps lock did have uses in commercial data entry where operators would be typing combinations of uppercase text and numbers, and the software was too feeble to handle any necessary case conversion. This data entry convention evolved from 1960s computing, where a restricted character set was stored in 5 or 6 byte values and it was safer to type in uppercase even if lowercase was available at the terminal.

It's been mostly just a nuisance since about 1990 though.
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