chips, or microprocessors such as the Intel 8080. This made them inexpensive and they quickly became extremely popular input-output devices on many types of computer system, often replacing earlier and more expensive printing terminals.

After 1970 several suppliers gravitated to a set of common standards:

* ASCII character set (rather than, say, EBCDIC or anything specific to one company), but early/economy models often supported

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