Comment by irishcoffee
11 hours ago
Carriage return and line feed go way back. Tty stands for teletype. A computer was the job description of a person.
It’s turtles all the way down.
11 hours ago
Carriage return and line feed go way back. Tty stands for teletype. A computer was the job description of a person.
It’s turtles all the way down.
What lower turtles were there? My impression was that teletypes were the first proper keyboard-based interfaces.
The telegraph was keybased - only one key so I can't call it a keyboard, but in other ways it is what you are asking about.