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    That's exactly like the teletype my school had before they threw it out in favour of an RM 380Z. My memory might be wrong, but I think the TTY in my school had an acoustic coupler where the blanking plate on the right of the one in the photograph is.
    – JeremyP
    Commented Apr 19, 2017 at 12:09
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    @JeremyP - your memory is correct! That's what went on the right side. 110 baud! Woohoo! I remember when Harvey Mudd upgraded to ASR-43s! God were those fast! 300 baud!
    – davidbak
    Commented Apr 19, 2017 at 18:03
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    From memory, Microsoft BASIC for CP/M is particularly hard to use because it doesn't assume a virtual teletype like most software from just a year or so later. Pressing backspace adds a backslash and then a fresh copy of the letter removed. Then the next letter removed, etc, followed by an additional backslash once the list of characters you've deleted has ended. So e.g. a correction might appear as PROM\MO\INT A.
    – Tommy
    Commented Apr 19, 2017 at 18:28
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    @cbmeeks Those "holes in the front" are not holes at all, they are the letters T E L E T Y P E.
    – user4511
    Commented Apr 20, 2017 at 2:08
  • That's actually a fairly late model -- the ASR-33. But to my knowledge most models worked similarly. While it was possible to disconnect the keyboard from the printer, they were normally connected together, either directly or by being "echoed" through the attached computer or whatever.
    – Hot Licks
    Commented Apr 20, 2017 at 19:29