>Command-line on a console, with CRT and keyboard?!? Toggle switches on front panel is the way to go!
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>>Edlin??? Children's toy. Real programmers use COPY CON:
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>>>>Thank you again. If this BSOD happens again, I will take a picture of the screen and then Google for more information. And if that does not work will download the reader. (and to be honest I am not staying away from using VS2012; I decide to switch to Edlin for my ASP.NET development <g>; I am so scared of BSOD)
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>>>There is a new version of Edlin called Visual Edlin, you know ;-) (Line stolen from Steve Black).

Actually, the first commercial computers had keyboards, but many were Teletype terminals.
No CRT's tho. They came much later,
Some of our current key conventions -CTL-V- etc hearken back to those terminals.

Toggle switches?