Definitions
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- noun A
teleprinter - noun A
message printed by a teleprinter - noun Early
input/output device formainframe computer - verb intransitive To
operate a teleprinter - verb transitive To send a message via teleprinter
Etymologies
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Examples
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Maurice Evans and Deputy DA Burl Estes wrote, Pursuant to your request this morning, I had Irene in teletype run a warrant check on Ms. Herdman.
Edgar Allen 2010
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Bolden claimed that in October, 1963, the Chicago Secret Service office received a teletype from the Federal Bureau of Investigation warning that an attempt would be made to kill President John F. Kennedy by a four-man Cuban hit squad when he visited the city on 2nd November.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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Bolden claimed that in October, 1963, the Chicago Secret Service office received a teletype from the Federal Bureau of Investigation warning that an attempt would be made to kill President John F. Kennedy by a four-man Cuban hit squad when he visited the city on 2nd November.
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An FBI teletype from the New Orleans office to FBI headquarters notified Director Hoover that Carlos Marcello's attorney G. Wray Gill had notified Ferrie about the library card.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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An FBI teletype from the New Orleans office to FBI headquarters notified Director Hoover that Carlos Marcello's attorney G. Wray Gill had notified Ferrie about the library card.
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The teletype is a symbol of what will become of newspapers as we know them now.
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For expenses of what is known as teletype service,
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We had 75 Baud, Baud being another of those early computer acronyms, up from 45 Baud working on those 'teletype' machines.
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Apparently I have touched a sore spot, since Hilsman, instead of dealing with the substance of my criticism, quibbles over allegedly incomplete quotations, how many weeks constitute a "shortly after," and what kind of teletype machine links Washington to Moscow.
An Exchange on the Missile Crisis Hilsman, Roger 1969
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The area code 600 is a non-geographical code used in Canada for special equipment, such as teletype machines.
Izabella's Blue 2008
punchcard commented on the word teletype
A teleprinter (teletypewriter, Teletype or TTY for TeleTYpe/TeleTYpewriter) is a now largely obsolete electro-mechanical typewriter which can be used to communicate typed messages from point to point and point to multipoint over a variety of communications channels that range from a simple electrical connection, such as a pair of wires, to the use of radio and microwave as the transmission medium.
September 27, 2008