Teletype
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
noun
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a type of teleprinter
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(sometimes not capital) a network of such devices, used for communicating messages, information, etc
verb
Example Sentences
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He first got access to an early mainframe computer via a teletype machine at the school, after the mothers held a jumble sale to raise the money.
From BBC
After visiting the museum and asking whether she could volunteer — she found the older guys sitting around with their doughnuts and coffee very welcoming — she got her initiation by learning about and fixing broken teletype machines.
From Seattle Times
“Apparently the AP dispatch was delayed by censor and transmitted after the government was overthrown,” read the Aug. 19, 1953, edition of the afternoon newspaper The Evening Star in Washington, D.C., which carried the latest dispatch at the time transmitted by the clacking teletype machines of the time.
From Seattle Times
As technology evolved, so did that process, with AP eventually transmitting vote counts by teletype to centralized race-calling operations on the East Coast.
From Seattle Times
A typical four-hour game was transformed by the Teletype process into an eight- or nine-hour affair.
From Literature
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