"By January 15, 1915, the Western Union Telegraph Company had begun using a printing telegraph system that combined aspects of the Murray and Morkrum codes. It used Murray’s codes for the letters and controls, but generally followed the Morkrum conventions for which figures should be paired with which letters. Like the Morkrum code and the later English Murray code, the Western Union code used separate line feed and carriage return characters instead of a single line character."

Damn you, Western Union!

A separate CR character allows for a few interesting things: "bold face" (return to the beginning of the printed line, type spaces for normal letters, the letters again for bold letters), underlined and crossed-out fragments (same, just use _ and - over affected characters), and, much later, in 1960s, various running progress meters on video terminals.

Which character to use as a line separator in a text file is a different question.

"Even before X3.4-1967 was published, there was already interest in two more minor revisions. First, the ISO code had since its first draft allowed the use of character 0/10 for new line as well as for line feed, but ASCII had not. On July 5, 1967, John B. Booth proposed that ASCII also include this dual meaning."

I fear it will never be resolved at this point.

Oh, it's resolved. It's just we don't agree on the answer.

What do you do when your Texas Instruments Silent 700 printing terminal is hslf-duplex with local character echo, which prints out every character, and you need to be prompted to enter a password? CR to the rescue!

XXXXXXXX [CR] OOOOOOOO [CR] M&%OCHIS [CR] HXNQPOUK [CR] [enter pw on gobblegook] [LF] [LF]

Welcome to GEISCO!

Timesharing was kewl. 8 character passwords were da bomb.

When was this paper published? There is no date on the paper itself, and different sites gives different dates.

I'm wondering because it incorrectly states that Unicode is a 16-bit code, which used to be a common misconception in the 90's.