Re: Single User

Greetings,

On 20 May 2022, at 16:38, @lbutlr wrote:

> Nope. Cottage Return was the name of the handle on the typewriter. Everything else is from teletype machines. There was th "Horizontal tab" on a typewriter, it was just a 'tab' and there was certainly not vertical tab. There was no 'line feed' because you didn't have a term for 'turn the roller by hand'.

Well, yes and no.  In my recollection, moving the lever on the typewriter would do a 'line feed', and you could do this more than once to get double or more spacing (or you could turn the roller by hand if you wanted).  If you continued to apply pressure on the handle then this would result in you pushing the carriage back to the right.

Thus 'line feed' and 'carriage return' were separate operations, even though they were effected using the same handle and typically in a single movement.

(of course, we could here be talking of different vintages of typewriter, but I think the above is right for most typewriters up to the invention of the daisy-wheel or golfball ones (when the 'carriage return' became a button on the keyboard, and the thing started to look more like a teletype))

Best wishes,

Norman


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