[QCWA] Another Explanation

[AW]

Well, for as long as I can remember, we have used upper case punctuation 
for communications - first Baudot Code and then ITA2 (?). Teleprinters 
and RTTY still use it. My first introduction to this mode was in 1958 
-The typewriters we used for Morse copy were Underwoods that had only 
upper case.  Later in 1960 at a shore unit,  I was forced to learn how 
to repair Model 15 teletypewriters (I was an ET2 in the Coast Guard and 
got shanghaied to fix a teletypewriter at the ops shack before I was 
allowed to go "on liberty").  The teletypewriters were all "upper case". 
We used teletypewriters til at least the mid-70's on board ship.  I 
guess after that satellite comms took over.

I believe the UPPER CASE shouting thing was "invented" by a generation 
that never knew about the upper case thing - they were/all used to 
having lower and upper case. Sort of like people who grew up with cell 
phones in their ears.

73,
Arthur
W1CRO


On 6/13/2013 9:41 AM, Gerd Schrick wrote:
> All caps (or all lower case) is used to avoid the headache to decide 
> which words deserve to be capitalized.
> It is easier to read with a few IMPORTANT words capitalized. All caps 
> is also preferred by the Fine Print Folks because it is hard to read!
> We hams are in Communication, if something is hard to understand, 
> beginning with reading, you are (maybe) not supposed to understand --- 
> so, there is no Communication.
> Got to run!
> Vy73, Gerd. WB8IFM
>
> -- Gerd & Traudl Schrick, 4741 Harlou Dr, Dayton, OH, 45432-1618
>  WB8IFM