"I suspect the BELL control code would be gone" I remember my mum getting her first electronic typewriter. It went bing at the end of the line to warn you, ju

"I suspect the BELL control code would be gone" I remember my mum getting her first electronic typewriter. It went bing at the end of the line to warn you, just like the old manual jobbies. I guess that was BEL in action. Later models had a buffer that you typed into and then it would spew text onto the paper when it knew what to do with your text to avoid splitting words or whatever lowly skills it had with typesetting.