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Except that terminals didn't exist when ASCII was created, printers existed, either with a "carriage" that carried the actual print head (like IBM Selectric typewriters, or the original ASR33 teletypes) or "chain printers" that printed an entire line at a time with a set of rods for each character position that had the entire character set on them.



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