teletype

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One famous Texas baseball re-creator narrated an epic — and entirely imagined — at-bat in which the heroic batter fouled off 58 pitches before the Teletype finally spit out the next bit of actual news.

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2016

This was in the 1960s, when programmers tapped out code using Teletype machines.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2015

Teletype machines at ringside were rendered useless and stories made it to newspapers via simple telephone dictation.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2014

In 1968, she signed on to the same Teletype machine that gave a young Gates access to a mainframe computer.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2013

Teletype machines clattered against the wall as spools of paper carrying news from around the world piled up on the floor.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls