that clue could be interpreted as "type a space going backward, wiping out what was there" because 0x20 SPC is an ascii character which is a blank, while "space" on a typewriter is an abstract relative concept, depending entirely where you very finely (but very hard to see) positioned the carriage and it's not guaranteed to be blank if you position it where there is some preexisting typewritten ink.
Do the general populace understand a space on a word processor to be an ASCII (or utf) character though.
Further how would a backwards space work under that model? Wouldn't that jump back to the previous character? But it's not obvious to me that it would obliterate the previous character
yeah, i don't think the general populace understands, but I'm talking to nerds here who understand ascii and are fascinated by the history of word processing technology, as this entire topic is about :)
