teleprinter


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Synonyms for teleprinter

a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter

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Just as with Evolution, the time of the machine will put its mark on the viewing-reading--the speed of the teleprinter is too slow to make for a seamless flow of absorption of words but also too fast to allow for reflective pauses or glances to the side.
A Lorenz teleprinter, similar to the Enigma machine, was used by Hitler to send coded messages to generals during World War II.
Its use continued into the late 1980s to early 1990s, when computer software was developed to emulate the teleprinter. The electromagnetic teletypewriter eventually yielded to satellite communications--modern printers bearing signal translation devices, such as the UYK-20 (64K RAM) and TT-624 medium speed printers.
In November, 1970, as last man on the office 'dog watch', I was leaving the newsroom when the teleprinter operator (those were the good old days) stuck his head through the hatch connecting the wire room and shouted: "Says here the Pope has been attacked in the Philippines!" There was to be no sleep that night: the late morning special edition I helped publish that day sold out and helped make my reputation.
Telecommunications now also includes the use of electrical devices such as the telegraph, telephone and teleprinter, as well as the use of radio and microwave communications, as well as fiber optics and their associated electronics, plus the use of the orbiting satellites and the Internet."
His military service began in the US Air Force where he trained in Morse Code School, Teleprinter Operator School, and then Non-Morse Signals Analyst Course.
Ten minutes later Fisher and Ludlow's was hit and from Birmingham's Control Centre teleprinter messages sped almost minute by minute to the Ministry of Home Security in London.
Utilize teleprinter, closed-circuit TV, computers, etc., to arrange contacts, sexual and other.
"One spring day towards the end of the cold war, a time of surprises, my teleprinter shuddered into action.
When they came out, they had the lyrics on a teleprinter and it broke down and they didn't know the lyrics to their own song.
I always thought that the Morkham-Kleinschmidt Teleprinter, to give the box its name, had a sinister appearance.
A small teleprinter on the flight deck generates the load sheet report, wherever the aircraft is at the time.