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1. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 22:55:09 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   I remember how the shift lock key used to lift the carriage of my mum's typewriter like a dog raising its head in expectation of a treat. I feel like a product of a bygone age. https://medium.com/forwardtick/its-time-for-caps-lock-to-die-81c9eaa4dfa7
   • Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 23:09:22 EDT Matthew Davidson

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     I used my mum's typewriter to write BASIC programs (I can't handwrite in monospace, so it never looked right otherwise) that I would then enter into the school computers at lunchtimes, so I used shift lock a lot. Ironically, this was on a Microbee, the #AU designed pre-PC micro which - uniquely for the time, I think - had proper lowercase characters due to an 8x16px character…