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Re:Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters by te on Thursday September 10, 2020 @12:59PM (#24434184)
We had an Apple II+ with the limitations you describe. However, we purchased and installed the 80-column card that provided both 80-columns and lowercase characters, which is what I think the parent comment is suggesting.
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Re:Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters by rz2k on Thursday September 10, 2020 @02:26PM (#24435133)
I remember adding 16KB or 32KB to get to a total of 48KB of RAM with a card that piggybacked onto the existing chips. Was that the same upgrade that enabled lowercase letters?

I mostly remember that the RAM upgrade changed the gauges in MS Flight Simulator from octagons into rounder circles.

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