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In 1954 at MIT, researchers [began] experimenting with direct keyboard input to computers. Until then, computer users fed their programs into a computer using punched cards or paper tape. Douglas Ross… believed… a Flexowriter [teletypewriter]… could function as a keyboard input device… Thus in 1955 MIT's Whirlwind [became] the first computer in the world to allow its users to enter commands through a keyboard…
Samuel Morse was one of the pioneers of electric telegraphy. Prompted by receiving news of his wife's death too late to attend her funeral, Morse was determined to improve the speed of long distance communications (which at that point relied on horse messengers).
In 1954 at MIT, researchers [began] experimenting with direct keyboard input to computers. Until then, computer users fed their programs into a computer using punched cards or paper tape. Douglas Ross… believed… a Flexowriter [teletypewriter]… could function as a keyboard input device… Thus in 1955 MIT's Whirlwind [became] the first computer in the world to allow its users to enter commands through a keyboard…