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Teletype
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Teletype
The trade name of Teletype Corporation, which refers to a variety of teleprinters used for communications. The Teletype was one of the first communications terminals in the U.S.

The Teletype Machine
For years, the clicking and clanging of Teletype machines were familiar sounds in the "wire rooms" of many companies. (Image courtesy of Honeywell, Inc.).

1.(hardware, product)Teletype - (tty) A trademark for a hard-copy teletypewriter produced by Teletype Corporation.
2.teletype - teletypewriter


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On it was the AP's teletyped request, including the information that Williams was believed to be in one of two Florida Keys towns--Islam or Ada.
Samples came by Greyhound bus; we ran tests during the night and manually teletyped results back to hospitals.
McAlpine was somewhat baffled by the request, since fishermen on the island, some 2,800 miles to the east of Vancouver, didn't much care for the bluefin's taste--as he Teletyped back to his bosses in Japan, "What [the fishermen] did after they caught them is they had their picture taken with the fish and dug a hole with a small bulldozer and buried them.
 
 
 
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