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As the backspace key is slow in simple mechanical typewriters ( the carriage was heavy and optimized to move in the opposite direction ), a more professional approach was to block the carriage by pressing and holding the space bar while printing all characters that needed to be in a shared position.
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For instance, the exclamation point, which shares a key with the numeral 1 on modern keyboards, could be reproduced by using a three-stroke combination of an apostrophe, a backspace, and a period.
" When a person wanted to type a table ( of numbers or text ) on a typewriter, there was a lot of time-consuming and repetitive use of the space bar and backspace key.
The Perkins Brailler is a " braille typewriter " with a key corresponding to each of the six dots of the braille code, a space key, a backspace key, and a line space key.
The alphabetical keyboard was similar to a conventional manual typewriter except that the shift, tab, backspace and character keys were eliminated, and a skip, release, stacker and ' 1 ' key were provided.
A backspace key
In some typewriters, a typist would, for example, type a lowercase letter A with acute accent ( á ) by typing a lowercase letter A, backspace, and then the acute accent key.
Although the term " backspace " is the standard name of the key which deletes the character to the left of the cursor, the actual key may be labeled in a variety of ways, for example delete, Erase ( for example in One Laptop Per Child ), or with a left pointing arrow.
The backspace is distinct from the delete key, which in paper media for computers would punch out all the holes to strike out a character, and in modern computers deletes text following it.
Also, the delete key often works as a generic command to remove an object ( such as an image inside a document, or a file in a file manager ), while backspace usually has no effect.
In modern systems, the backspace key is often mapped to the delete character ( 0x7f in ASCII or Unicode ), although the backspace key's function of deleting the character before the cursor remains.
The backspace key is commonly used to go back a page ( or up one level ) when exploring folders in graphical environments, or when browsing the Web in web browsers.
Pressing the backspace key on a computer terminal would generate the ASCII code 08, BS or Backspace, a control code which would delete the preceding character.
Terminals which did not have the backspace code mapped to the function of moving the cursor backwards and deleting the preceding character would display the symbols ^ H ( caret, H — see Caret notation ) when the backspace key was pressed.
Thus, typists would type a normal zero, backspace, and hit the slash key to mark the zero.
The enter key is typically located on the lower right of the numeric keyboard, and the return key ( often marked as the enter key ) on the right edge of the keyboard, under backspace in older computers and under the vertical bar key in most newer machines ( assuming a standard US layout ).
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The exception is control characters, such as " delete " or " backspace " which correct typing mistakes by deleting the character at the end of the buffer.
A modern variant is the use of ^ H to fake a backspace.
backspace and carriage
It provides power for typing as well as power-operated backspace, type basket shift, and power for engaging ( and probably disengaging ) the carriage return clutch.
backspace and was
Upon a fresh boot, the command history was supposedly empty, but if the user typed a single space followed by a backspace, then hit CTRL-A, the names of the authors would be displayed: ' by K. Kaplan, L. Crane, R. Doggett '.
This character was created as an unambiguous alternative to the much more common backspace character (" BS ", U + 0008 ), which had a now mostly-obsolete alternative function of causing the following character to be superimposed on the preceding one.
in the above example, the incorrect character (' x ') was deleted with a backspace ('<-').
(' a ' stands for " alert " or " audible " and was chosen because was already used for the backspace character.
backspace and move
In a mainframe environment, to backspace means to move a magnetic tape backwards, typically to the previous block.
backspace and space
POSIX defines printable file as a text file that whose character are printable or space or backspace according to regional rules.
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* backspace. com
Fixes ( F ) keystrokes are easy to identify, and include keystrokes such as backspace, delete, cursor movements, and modifier keys.
This particular cam assembly has a cam that rotates a full turn for each operation ; it might operate the backspace, basket shift, or carriage-return clutch disengage mechanism.
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The key word in my plays is ' perhaps ' ''.
We know that much is made of the multiplicity and ambiguity of the identities that cluster around the key symbol of the Jew.
The symposium provides an opportunity to confront the self with specific statements which were made at particular times by identifiable communicators who were addressing definite audiences -- and throughout several hundred pages everyone is talking about the same key symbol of identification.
This is the key fact emerging from Sunday's national election.
But the key revelation is not new.
A romantic is one who thinks the world is divinely inspired and all he has to do is find the right key, and then divine justice and altruism will appear.
The long-range objective is to bring about consolidation of ownership through use of land exchange authority and through purchase on a moderate scale of inholdings which comprise key tracts for recognized National Forest programs such as recreation development, or which are a source of damage to lands in National Forests and National Grasslands.
otherwise, you'll have to spend a few minutes to either attach a suitable spring clip somewhere on the press head or fit the key to a length of light chain and fasten to the bottom of the motor mount so that the key is out of the way when not in use.
The key to effective marketing is wrapped up in defining your company's marketing problems realistically.
A new low capacity meter is the key that unlocks the situation at Oakwood Heights.
The phrasing is irregular, and the abrupt key changes have a primitive forcefulness.
Rangoni's first entrance is a musical shock, a sudden open fifth in a key totally unrelated to what has preceded it.
The key to the world of geology is change ; ;
I submit that this is the key problem of international relations, that it always has been, that it always will be.
The soldiers are fighting and the Americans are helping, he said, but in the fight against the Pathet Lao the key factor is the villager himself.
The key to Protestant development, therefore, is economic integration of the nucleus of the congregation.
I said `` Darn it, that's the automatic signal that shows when the ignition key is on.
And the key to the suite is still missing ''.
Mr. Schaefer also recommended that the snow emergency route plan, under which parking is banned on key streets and cars are required to use snow tires or chains on them, should be `` strictly enforced ''.
`` Convenience is therefore the key to the housing market today.
A publicity release from Oregon Physicians Service, of which Harvey is president, quoted him as saying the welfare office move to Salem, instead of `` crippling '' the agency, had provided an avenue to correct administrative weaknesses, with the key being improved communications between F & A and the commission staff.
Now a quiet-spoken, middle-aged man, Fiedler is an aeronautical engineer for Lockheed's Missiles and Space Division at Sunnyvale, where he played a key role in the development of the Navy's Polaris missile.
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