A teleprinter is, at its heart, an automatic typewriter. It’s electrically controlled and has some smarts to be able to decode an incoming message and has something that will move the keys. These ...

SALISBURY — On his farm in eastern Rowan County, Hugh Martin sometimes likes to “play” in what once was the old wash house and a place for canning. He has filled it with work benches, tools and things ...

LIKE slide-rules, steam engines and carbon paper, the telex machine, once ubiquitous and indispensable, has vanished from sight. But not, quite, from existence. As younger readers may need reminding, ...

Most modern offices in Kenya once bragged of having the telex machine. It was for sending and receiving text messages. The telex, in case you never experienced Nyayo milk, used radio or microwaves to ...

Historians at a museum have connected a 50-year-old telex machine to modern day artificial intelligence (AI), creating "a conversation spanning decades". Telex was a message transfer service where ...

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Readers with not too many years under their belts may recall a time when the classic background sound effect for radio and television news programs included a staccato mechanical beat, presumably made ...