Hello Michiel,

 KE>> There have been times, when my stance was, that if my ASR33 does not
 KE>> support it, it is out of bounds. ;)

 MvdV> Once. in a previous millennium I had the same attitude regarding Baudot
 MvdV> code.  Which is even more Spartanic than upper case ASCII.

It had to be, given the medium.

 KE>> Others still have that stance, beit, that they converted to all
 KE>> Lowercase.

 MvdV> Baudot code has only one case. Most machines using Baudot code display
lower
 MvdV> case.

The Baudot code is still common in the European telex system,
which is why uppercase letters are allowed in the international
telex network.  That does not mean that lowercase letters
cannot or should not be used.  But it does make things a whole
lot more practical.

 MvdV> Morse code also has just one case.

Can you imagine exchanging messages in FidoNet using morse code
rather than uppercase and lowercase letters in regular language?

 MvdV> But unlike Baudot code, it is extendible and while in its orginal form
it
 MvdV> just had 26 letters, the digits 0-9 and a handfull special chaacters,
later
 MvdV> codes for accented and umlauted characters were added. The latest
addition
 MvdV> is .--.-. (@)

For writing echomail it would be impractical.

--Lee

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