Re: [open-cobol-list] Upper lower case and free format.

[Fred Mobach]

On Monday 07 February 2011 00:34:37 John Culleton wrote:

> If punch cards had lower case I suspect Grace Hopper would have used
> U/L when she first designed the language in 1960 or so. But not only
> punchcards but the interior character set of many 2nd generation
> computers could not handle lower case. I had charge of a Honeywell
> system (H110) that did not have lower case in 1970-1971.

Since 1970 I've used punch cards with EBCDIC based computers. Sometimes 
the printers were desinged to print lowercase letters, more often not.

However, especially in PICTURE strings lowercase letters were used like
 a -> x'81' (punch 12-0-1 ?).
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