In your paper @enf don't you say teletype perpetuated typewriter & influenced ASCII?
Ah, got it. I was thinking on a higher level. (BTW aren’t laptop numeric-keypad-on-alpha section inspired by key punches?) I have that article queued up, but haven’t read it yet!
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I think more likely independent reinvention, if only because the keypunch ones put 123 on the top instead of 789?
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Maybe there is a higher level story but so much of it seems to be small independent decisions that added up
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