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Although much effort has been spent trying to improve communications across the man-computer boundary, most large computer centers still rely on punched-card-input and line-printer-output for the bulk of their load. Even modern "time-shared" systems rely principally on teletypewriter alphanumeric communication between man and machine.
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Christensen et al. (1967) studied this question.