telex
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"Satish was getting phone calls and the telex machine was chattering away as well," remembers Baxter.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2024
The telex machines, which could send text-based messages over established phone networks, were a smart workaround — the data from those messages would be processed by the central computer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
For another work meant to critique the divide between art and the outside world, Haacke set up a telex machine to print live news updates on a seemingly endless paper scroll.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2022
Everything has changed since I was filing by telex from the Commodore Hotel in Beirut in 1983.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 24, 2019
Several email services offer forwarding to fax, telex or ordinary postal service delivery.
From The Online World by De Presno, Odd
The tools of the trade used to be typewriters and telexes, but the thrill is just the same.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2022
“SIGINT,” in the parlance of the intelligence community, is gleaned from phone transmissions, telexes, emails, satellites and other forms of electronic communication.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2020
You'd be waiting for these telexes to come out of the machine the size of 10 washing machines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2018
The fixed loci of communication — phone booths, the single land-line handset in the family hallway, untransportable machines known as telexes and, later, faxes — are obsolete or heading that way.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2010
The now bashful Texas billionaire slammed down the phone and the next morning decamped, leaving behind a trail of unopened telexes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Convinced that Steenhoven carried secret orders to clinch a business deal with Peking, Japanese automen telexed their U.S. offices to find out everything possible about him.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Iranian central bank had not telexed its payment order to the U.S. banks, and Iran's chief negotiator, Behzad Nabavi, was calling that final eleven-page document a new and unacceptable set of demands.
From Time Magazine Archive
The two were assured the letter would be telexed to Moscow promptly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Echoing Walesa's calls for restraint, Solidarity's national presidium telexed union locals at week's end to demand a halt to wildcat strikes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Back at his hotel, he telexed a U.S. intelligence officer in Bangkok that he had found a ``very beautiful bird with many beautiful feathers,'' code words signaling he had the index.
From Time Magazine Archive
After months of telexing messages to Moscow, Tunney got the license, and presto, he and his friend have exclusive rights in the Western Hemisphere to promote the Olympics.
From Time Magazine Archive
