And in fact, the typewriter was essentially deleted by this thing.

An early editor for the PDP 1 was named Expensive Typewriter .

Such is the case of their musically modified typewriter called the dactilófono

In practice, TECO editing was performed online just as it had been with Expensive Typewriter (although TECO was certainly a more feature complete editor than Expensive Typewriter, so editing was much more efficient with TECO).

You may have heard about Rathergate, which was basically the result of bloggers realizing that the th is not typesetted on an old typewriter it's on Word.

There were a number of technologies for this task, but most shared the property that the glyphs were physically difficult to change, as they were stamped onto typewriter keys, bands of metal, or optical plates.

The only way to observe the state of the text during the editing process was to type in commands that would cause the text (or portions thereof) to be typed out on the console typewriter.

He was always getting his things and leaving not that he had many things to get in his last years, homeless and reduced to sleeping on park benches in Harare, Zimbabwe, all he had were his typewriter and a few books.