29 Jun
2014
29 Jun
'14
1:35 p.m.
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Tom <a50mhzham at gmail.com> wrote:
At 01:11 PM 6/29/2014, Robert Jarratt wrote:
When Dan Murphy wrote the first TECO for the PDP-1 around 1962, it was
"Tape", in reference to paper tape. It was retcon'd to "Text" at
some
later date, presumably by people that weren't using paper tape.
It says TECO is Tape Editor and COrrector.
"Text" is the way I learned it.