b...@update.uu.se (Johnny Billquist) writes: >But anyway. The big point is that teletypes actually just had a key >labelled "rubout". That key did send a DEL character, though.
Backspacing on a punch tape would have come pretty unnatural. :) N.B. I haven't actually seen a key labelled "rubout". But the editor manual mentioned it a lot (together with "altmode" for what is nowadays known as Escape).
