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Re:Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters by sowbug on Thursday September 10, 2020 @05:39PM (#24436822)
Tangent: when we bought our Apple II in 1980, the salesperson explained that the "Sup'R'Mod" extra video box we also needed to connect to a TV was sold separately, manufactured by a different company, so that neither needed FCC certification.

I don't know whether this story is true, but it's what we were told.

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Re:Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters by wlesieutre on Thursday September 10, 2020 @05:46PM (#24436875)
Wikipedia has a page on the Sup'R'Mod and cites this page for the same story with some additional detail: https://apple2history.org/history/ah03/ (see "Other Design Features" section)

That's a funny little piece of computer history.

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Re:Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters by apricot on Thursday September 10, 2020 @10:01PM (#24438454)
That's also how it was explained to me, back in the days.
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