teletype

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One famous Texas baseball re-creator narrated an epic — and entirely imagined — at-bat in which the heroic batter fouled off 58 pitches before the Teletype finally spit out the next bit of actual news.

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2016

It was a Teletype machine that transmitted 60 words a minute.

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2016

Teletype machines at ringside were rendered useless and stories made it to newspapers via simple telephone dictation.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2014

In 1968, she signed on to the same Teletype machine that gave a young Gates access to a mainframe computer.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2013

With time-sharing, you could sit at your Teletype, bang in a couple of commands, and get an answer then and there.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell