I’m afraid you’ve lost touch with the technology of that time. You’re thinking in terms of 21st century technology.
@JamesGleick From /Chaos: Making of a New Science/:
"...he would have the machine *print a certain number of blank spaces* followed by the letter a."
How does one print blank spaces? this seems to be awesomely silly and unintentional.
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