In what ways have typewriters shaped computing?

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espex · Answer

Typewriters have dictated the design of keyboards as well as many of the formatting standards for documents.

anonymous · Answer

fonts

anonymous · Answer

Typewriters were designed with the QWERTY pattern to purposely slow down typing. That non-ergonomic, illogical pattern was also adopted on the majority of keyboards today.

anonymous · Answer

sounds like an essay question; what kind of answer are you looking for? all of the above are true

anonymous · Answer

It was just a thought that struck me, since I've been using a GNU/Linux system for about a month; the output on the GNU/Linux virtual console/terminal makes me think of how the older UNIXes adapted the older output systems (physically printing stuff through a typewriter thing to paper) to video screens and stuff, not to mention keywords on programming languages like "print". 

I had this feeling computers were made to work with character data adopted from typewriter systems.

Also, where did the ASCII codes stuff originally come from?

anonymous · Answer

It's like evolution!

rsmith6559 · Answer

One thing that I think is germain to your thoughts: punch cards for input.  The 80 column line still rules!  Or the 132 column output that "computer paper" uses.

Have you checked out the lp or lpr commands, yet?

anonymous · Answer

What do 80 columns have to do with typewriters? The linux terminal is derived from "teletype" terminals, which were partly based on typewrieters. And regarding ASCII: Which part of this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#History did you find lacking?