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 ...

YouTuber Marc Verdiell, a.k.a. CuriousMarc, has turned a 1930s teletype machine into a Linux terminal. To do that, he had to make circuitry and programming that translates five-bit Baudot code into ...

For years, the Department of Veterans Affairs has distributed teletype machines called TTYs for free to help some deaf, hearing-impaired or blind veterans make text-based calls from their home ...

It’s not often that you run across a Model 19 Teletype machine circa 1940 that is combined with an Arduino and used to monitor the internet and print out tweets from President Donald Trump. It’s not ...

The health care system for Nebraska and western Iowa veterans has ordered teletype machines so deaf or blind veterans can contact the Veterans Affairs Department. The Omaha World-Herald reports that ...

If you’ve got a working Model 33 Teletype, every project starts to look like an excuse to use it. While the hammering, whirring symphony of a teleprinter going full tilt brings to mind a simpler time ...

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