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telex

[tel-eks] / ˈtɛl ɛks /


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McSherry’s research revealed how the CIA supported the intelligence services of the Condor states with computerized links, a telex system and purpose-built encoding and decoding machines made by the CIA logistics department.

From Salon Apr. 21, 2024

"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

Without SWIFT, Russian institutions will be forced to fall back on a telex network and other less convenient and more costly alternatives.

From Washington Post Feb. 27, 2022

DASnet also lets you send email as telex, fax and by ordinary mail.

From The Online World by Odd De Presno

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 bonanza has caught many travel organizations with their telexes down.

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

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

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

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

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




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