Re: How old are Emacs users?

[Stein Arild Strømme]

[Peter Dyballa]

| Am 02.05.2007 um 11:01 schrieb Stein Arild Strømme:
| 
| > Were there Meta and Control keys there, or how did we do it?  Did
| > it involve backspacing?
| 
| I don't remember any Escape, Meta, Alt, Control, Shift, or Backspace
| key on those teletype like IBM keyboards – how would you rub out
| punched holes?

I said backspace, not delete!  You could punch additional wholes into
the same column, creating other bytes than the built-in ones.

SA
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