[GreenKeys] ENTER

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dr. David Link" <david at khm.de>
To: <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 6:54 AM
Subject: [GreenKeys] ENTER


> Many thanks for your wonderful replies to the chat 
> question.
>
> Apart from the fact that I still do not have a Creed 7 or 
> 85 teleprinter
> :-(
>
> I was wondering if the origin of the ENTER key (as opposed 
> to CR) was
> also in teletype chat?
>
> Or did manual keypunches have an enter key?
>
> Or did it really only evolve with IBM?
>
> With kind regards, David


     This is hardly exhaustive but when I learned 
programming on a Hewlett-Packard main frame the tapes were 
punched using an ASR-33.  The CR key was the "entry" and the 
machine did not have an "enter" key.  It was AFAIK a 
standard Teletype.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com