backspaceable

Supporting a backspace function.

Adjective

  1. Supporting a backspace function.
    • The reason was to allow the newer backspaceable Teletypes and their code-compatible derivatives to represent the international character sets more readily. - 1992, Joseph M. Newcomer, “ASCII”, in alt.folklore.computers...
    • Anyway, the standard does allow for non-backspaceable files, at the compiler's choice. - 2009, Richard Maine, “Error writing on unit 22”, in comp.lang.fortran (Usenet):

Origin

From backspace + -able.