The ‘here is’ key

Re:The ‘here is’ key by work_account on Monday August 21, 2017 @02:00PM (#15066321)

But what does the RUB key do?

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Re:The ‘here is’ key by mmphosis on Monday August 21, 2017 @02:16PM (#15066446)

RUB. When the RUB (rubout) key is typed while holding down the SHIFT key, a non-displayable rubout code (ASCII DEL) is transmitted to the computer. The cursor is not advanced and the character code stored in display memory is not overwritten. RUB is normally used to tell the computer that a previous character should be deleted. https://amaus.net/static/S100/learSiegler/terminal/Lear%20Si...

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Re:The ‘here is’ key by MaggieL on Monday August 21, 2017 @08:37PM (#15068892)

RUBOUT punched all the bits on punched paper tape. You could use it to actually edit the tape by feeding the tape back into the punch, if you created slack space with some NULs, which didn't punch any holes at all. RUBOUT the characters you didn't want, and punch the replacements into the NUL spaces.

Important to remember that ASR-33s weren't designed to be use with computers.

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Re:The ‘here is’ key by gpvos on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:55PM (#15067321)

A genie appears who will grant you three wishes.

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Re:The ‘here is’ key by fiddlerwoaroof on Monday August 21, 2017 @02:10PM (#15066403)

I suspect it's RUBOUT

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