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The airline industry still uses teletype. Jigen III ( talk) 04:47, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
There are two sounds associated with this technology. First, is the chatter of the teletype machine banging away at the paper on which it printed. This sounded rather like a shockingly fast typist. The other is the modem-like squeal and series of beeps these machines used over the wire or over the air when sending messages. Neither of those sounds is to be found here. -- Brothernight ( talk) 20:33, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
A reader questioned (on my talk page) the prevalence of the phrase "telephone typewriter" as a generic term for teleprinters and an alternate source for the contraction "teletype". I did a search for the phrase "telephone typewriter" in Google Books, limiting my search to the period 1900 to 1940. I got too many hits, some accidental coincidences of the words "telephone" and "typewriter". So, I tried the phrase "by telephone typewriter" and I still got a bunch of hits. Here are some, with quotations:
Note that many of the relevant hits in my first search were from telephone companies in the Bell System. I get the feeling that, as soon as the Bell System began leasing teleprinter services to their customers, they set to work to undermine the trademarky by emphasizing the phrase "telephone typewriter" in their promotional materials and encouraging the public to think of the word "teletype" as a contraction of that phrase, without ever directly abusing the trademark. Judging by the number of hits I got, the scheme worked pretty well. Douglas W. Jones ( talk) 19:26, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
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About the time "Baudot" was changed to "ITA2", the word "ASCII" was also removed from
...partly because I have no doubt that ASCII was never introduced at all on five-level networks!
However the model 33 did bring ASCII to Teletype Corp's product lineup, and I wonder: Was ASCII in e.g. computer applications really "never as popular" as ITA2 was in the five-level networks? How could we find out? Does the comparison even matter? I don't think so and I'm inclined to leave the statement as it is (of course I am; at present it's my edit) but... comments? Jeh ( talk) 08:26, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
One novel application of teletype were teletype projectors used on US Navy aircraft carriers in WWII. The system enabled messages/briefings to be transmitted to multiple pilots' ready rooms, where they were displayed by a projector. Its pretty interesting, but I'm not sure where to include it in the article. More info can be under 'miscellaneous' towards the bottom of this page. LittleDwangs ( talk) 11:28, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
If known, please add to this article... the maximum number of printable characters per line for various common width paper. I did some quick searching and couldn't find this information, but I might have chosen the wrong words/phrases to search. Thanks! 06:29, 18 March 2023 (UTC) • Sbmeirow • Talk • 06:29, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
Google translate renders the heading as 'Digital Economy' and the body text as being about Telegram (software) -- TedColes ( talk) 16:28, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
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The airline industry still uses teletype. Jigen III ( talk) 04:47, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
There are two sounds associated with this technology. First, is the chatter of the teletype machine banging away at the paper on which it printed. This sounded rather like a shockingly fast typist. The other is the modem-like squeal and series of beeps these machines used over the wire or over the air when sending messages. Neither of those sounds is to be found here. -- Brothernight ( talk) 20:33, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
A reader questioned (on my talk page) the prevalence of the phrase "telephone typewriter" as a generic term for teleprinters and an alternate source for the contraction "teletype". I did a search for the phrase "telephone typewriter" in Google Books, limiting my search to the period 1900 to 1940. I got too many hits, some accidental coincidences of the words "telephone" and "typewriter". So, I tried the phrase "by telephone typewriter" and I still got a bunch of hits. Here are some, with quotations:
Note that many of the relevant hits in my first search were from telephone companies in the Bell System. I get the feeling that, as soon as the Bell System began leasing teleprinter services to their customers, they set to work to undermine the trademarky by emphasizing the phrase "telephone typewriter" in their promotional materials and encouraging the public to think of the word "teletype" as a contraction of that phrase, without ever directly abusing the trademark. Judging by the number of hits I got, the scheme worked pretty well. Douglas W. Jones ( talk) 19:26, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
References
About the time "Baudot" was changed to "ITA2", the word "ASCII" was also removed from
...partly because I have no doubt that ASCII was never introduced at all on five-level networks!
However the model 33 did bring ASCII to Teletype Corp's product lineup, and I wonder: Was ASCII in e.g. computer applications really "never as popular" as ITA2 was in the five-level networks? How could we find out? Does the comparison even matter? I don't think so and I'm inclined to leave the statement as it is (of course I am; at present it's my edit) but... comments? Jeh ( talk) 08:26, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
One novel application of teletype were teletype projectors used on US Navy aircraft carriers in WWII. The system enabled messages/briefings to be transmitted to multiple pilots' ready rooms, where they were displayed by a projector. Its pretty interesting, but I'm not sure where to include it in the article. More info can be under 'miscellaneous' towards the bottom of this page. LittleDwangs ( talk) 11:28, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
If known, please add to this article... the maximum number of printable characters per line for various common width paper. I did some quick searching and couldn't find this information, but I might have chosen the wrong words/phrases to search. Thanks! 06:29, 18 March 2023 (UTC) • Sbmeirow • Talk • 06:29, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
Google translate renders the heading as 'Digital Economy' and the body text as being about Telegram (software) -- TedColes ( talk) 16:28, 21 April 2024 (UTC)