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On a teletype, ALL characters are combining marks because you can backspace (another ASCII character derived directly from teletype codes) and type another char
by electroly 9y ago
On a teletype, ALL characters are combining marks because you can backspace (another ASCII character derived directly from teletype codes) and type another character overtop it.
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- reaperducer 9y agoAre you old enough to remember when you printed your code on a teletype machine that blank spaces were represented by a "b" with a slash through it? I hated that. Even worse, I remember one shop where the teletypes didn't have question marks, so people used capital P's instead.