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Because video cameras were not allowed in the Manhattan courtroom where Mr. Trump was tried, this breathtaking turn in American history, like the entire run of the trial, was read to us by TV anchors, as if off a Teletype machine.

After visiting the museum and asking whether she could volunteer — she found the older guys sitting around with their doughnuts and coffee very welcoming — she got her initiation by learning about and fixing broken teletype machines.

“Apparently the AP dispatch was delayed by censor and transmitted after the government was overthrown,” read the Aug. 19, 1953, edition of the afternoon newspaper The Evening Star in Washington, D.C., which carried the latest dispatch at the time transmitted by the clacking teletype machines of the time.

As technology evolved, so did that process, with AP eventually transmitting vote counts by teletype to centralized race-calling operations on the East Coast.

A typical four-hour game was transformed by the Teletype process into an eight- or nine-hour affair.