teletype

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Several times a day, I would click between an assortment of news sites on the web and scroll through Twitter for breaking news as though it were an old wire service Teletype machine.

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2018

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

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

Instead, Lakeside installed what was called an ASR-33 Teletype, which was a time-sharing terminal with a direct link to a mainframe computer in downtown Seattle.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell