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WORKS!try it ↓
WORKS!try it ↓
EItem 24-1012
Click the screen and type. On a phone, use the keyboard button.
Click the screen and type. On a phone, use the keyboard button.
A teleprinter is a typewriter wired to a distant machine. In the 1960s it was how you used a computer you never saw: a time-sharing machine served dozens of these terminals at once, each user getting slices of its time, and every session left a paper trail.
Many teleprinters printed capital letters only, which is part of why early programming languages and old systems seem to shout.
Carriage return and line feed were two separate movements: one sent the print head back to the left margin, the other rolled the paper up a line. Text files on some systems still end every line with both codes.
Programs and data were saved on paper tape: each character a row of up to eight punched holes. On many systems a terminal is still called a TTY, short for teletypewriter.