Editing Computer terminal (section)

==History==
The console of [[Konrad Zuse]]'s [[Z3 (computer)|Z3]] had a keyboard in 1941, as did the [[Z4 (computer)|Z4]] in 1942–1945. However, these consoles could only be used to enter numeric inputs and were thus analogous to those of calculating machines; programs, commands, and other data were entered via paper tape. Both machines had [[blinkenlights|a row of display lamps]] for results.

In 1956, the [[Whirlwind I|Whirlwind Mark&nbsp;I]] computer became the first computer equipped with a keyboard-printer combination with which to support direct input<ref name="flexowriter-whirlwind" /> of data and commands and output of results. That device was a [[Friden Flexowriter]], which would continue to serve this purpose on many other early computers well into the 1960s.