#teleprinter

[looknorf]

2014-12-28

[1-1-s1ay-2-2]

What is a TTY? - AboutTTY.com

TTY is the old school concept of enabling deaf and hoh individuals to make phone calls. Nowadays, with all the texting technology, it’s surprising how the deaf/hoh community is still isolated from the hearing community. In 2019, there’s a lot of businesses, corporations, companies, and institutions that do not accept texting/email as a way to contact them.

So, yeah...it’d be amazing if teleprinting/text calling was more of a common thing — not just for personal contact, but for all contact.

[notallfay]

Look at this adorable freak, it's a #teleprinter it was used to send "telexes" in 1981. Which I had to Google, it's an international system of #telegraphy with #printedmessages transmitted and received by #teleprinters using the public #telecommunications network. "networks can be set up to send and receive text by telex" It sounded like a convoluted system actually. But I live in a world where Emails are a thing, and my D&D is run in 3 different countries via Skype... So yeah! (at Museum of Science and Industry)

[writing-system]

Teletypesetter Perforator

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[text-mode]

Illustration from teleprinter novel Informed Sources by Willard S. Bain (1967)

[writing-system]

Lorenz Cipher Teleprinter Tape 1939/1945

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[mudwerks]

(via Guess What: 1943 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)

June 1943. Miss Kathleen McCarthy, a Western Union teleprinter operator, gumming telegraph messages.

[text-mode]

Radio amateurs using the 1930s Hellschreiber format. Pics from Peter Manson's slow scan TV page. Nice page, also with details for each picture above, like:

Hellschreiber QSO between Jean-Claude in Lille, F3CF and Dima in Moscow, RX3AGD, 25th January 2007, 2010UTC, 7MHz band.