Case-sensitivity: why -- or why not? (was Re: Damnation!)

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On 21 May 2000 23:40:09 -0400, François Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca>
declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:

> 
> If you mean those oscilloscopes which simultaneously drove the X and Y
> coordinates, with separate analogic hardware for each character, the only
> one I knew were the CDC 6x00 consoles, and these were pretty expensive

	Hmmm, my first thought would have been Tektronix storage display
tubes... The infamous "killer" displays (hearsay, but I've heard that
the vacuum in a cracked display tube was sufficient to drive the gun end
out the front of the tube to impale the user <G>)

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