[js1138]

The TRS-80 Model I was shipped with seven bits of video memory -- not enough to display lowercase. I modified two of them by adding an eighth memory chip in a humping cockroach configuration. The PC cost me $800 dollars (used), and this mod involved soldering several pins of the chips together, plus a couple of wires directly to the motherboard.

That was scary.

[Coyoteman]

The TRS-80 Model I was shipped with seven bits of video memory -- not enough to display lowercase. I modified two of them by adding an eighth memory chip in a humping cockroach configuration.

We did the same in early 1979. The LNW-80 clone came with the extra video memory and lower case enabled. What a breakthrough!