In the dead of night a teleprinter chattered away, a few characters at a time, printing complete rubbish. Was it spirits or something more earthly to blame? Many years ago I was in charge of an ...

This week, we’re taking the wayback machine to 1940 for an informative, fast-paced look at the teleprinter. At the telegram office’s counter, [Mary] recites her well-wishes to the clerk. He fills out ...

Sometimes you can find a real gem on eBay. The UK’s National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park certainly did: It spotted a Nazi teleprinter used during the war for sale on the site and bought it ...

While unquestionably old-fashioned, a teleprinter in use may look somewhat familiar to the texters and instant messengers of today. The device allowed people to transmit printed messages to each other ...

[Larry Wall], inventor of Perl, once famously said that programmers have three key virtues: sloth, hubris, and impatience. It’s safe to say that these personality quirks are also present in some ...

A British museum has been searching for parts of the Lorenz cipher machine, used by the Nazis in World War II to send secret messages. So when sharp-eyed museum volunteers happened upon what appeared ...

The teleprinter for the Lorenz cipher machine, which Hitler used to message his top generals A historic machine used to swap top secret messages between Hitler and his generals has been found ...

SPEAKING at the annual dinner of the Insurance Institute at Birmingham on Jan 22, Sir Kingsley Wood, Postmaster—General, said that the Post Office hopes to introduce in a few months' time a ...