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A teleprinter was how we transmitted written messages before we had computers.
A teleprinter had from one to four components.
First was the printer. It was an impact printer. Some of them had type elements - the Selectric typewriter is like that. Others had a rubber belt with characters set into it. If all you had was the printer, you had an RO - receive only - unit. Newsrooms usually had a row of them, one for each news service they subscribed to.
There were two eras of teleprinter: Baudot and ASCII. A Baudot printer used a start pulse, five data pulses and a stop pulse (which is 1.5 times longer than one of the other pulses, so the unit can tell the difference) to represent a character. Because five bits - 31 different combinations - can't represent 26 letters, 10 digits, a sampling of punctuation and the various codes the system needs to operate, two of the characters were "shift in" and "shift out." The system uses five bits because it was designed to be transmitted with a little device that looks like a toy piano; the operator would press the proper keys for each character, using the fingers of one hand. Later came the ASCII teleprinter, which uses the same code as your computer's keyboard.
If you also had a keyboard you had a Keyboard Send and Receive or KSR. These were exceptionally rare. You got charged per minute you were on line, so you didn't want to sit there and type messages...which brings in two more devices.
The first is the Automatic Send and Receive system, which is a KSR with a paper tape punch/reader unit on it. The Model 40 Teletype replaced the paper tape punch with a cassette tape unit.
The other is the Tape Distributor, which is just a paper tape reader. Quite often a company had a communications center with rows of RO printers and TD units. You would have an ASR to make tapes the comms center would send for you.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter
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Who invented teleprinter and when?
The teleprinter evolved through a series of inventions by a number of engineers, including Royal Earl House, David Edward Hughes, Emile Baudot, Donald Murray, Charles L. Krum, Edward Kleinschmidt and Frederick G. Creed. Teleprinters were invented in order to send and receive messages without the need for operators trained in the use of Morse code. A system of two teleprinters, with one operator trained to use a typewriter, replaced two trained Morse code operators. The teleprinter system improved message speed and delivery time, making it possible for messages to be flashed across a country with little manual intervention. This began in 1846 with Royal Earl House patenting his printing telegraph through 1924 then Creed & Company, founded by Frederick G. Creed, entered the teleprinter field with their Model 1P. Additional minor improvements were invented from then into the 1960s.
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Input/output: paper tape, teleprinter, switches 4
Who is the inventor of teleprinter?
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Computer connected to the Internet, optionally with a dot-matrix printer connected if you want teleprinter-like capability.
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The Telix. A teleprinter used to communicate messages and (nowadays) very slow speed and Morse code. A system of radio transmission "dots and dashes" - a form of telegraphy.
What eleven letter word begins with the letter t and ends with the letter r?
teetotaller telegrapher teleprinter thankfuller thermometer toastmaster totalizator tranquiller transcriber transformer transmitter transponder transporter typographer tyrannosaur
How does a printer work?
First the teleprinter takes the letter you put in to it and picks a random letter to add to it, then sends the new letter to the other printer and the presses is undon Writen by a 12year old.
How synchronous work?
With timing, sent from end to end. Examples are synchronous data with explicit timing circuits at interfaces and plesiochronous where the timing is embedded in the main signal by line codes. Asynchronous, without timing is historical and relates to teleprinter speeds up to 300 bit/s.
What are some words that start with the root word tele?
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