telex

McSherry’s research revealed how the CIA supported the intelligence services of the Condor states with computerized links, a telex system and purpose-built encoding and decoding machines made by the CIA logistics department.

The telex machines, which could send text-based messages over established phone networks, were a smart workaround — the data from those messages would be processed by the central computer.

The tools of the trade used to be typewriters and telexes, but the thrill is just the same.

For another work meant to critique the divide between art and the outside world, Haacke set up a telex machine to print live news updates on a seemingly endless paper scroll.

Without SWIFT, Russian institutions will be forced to fall back on a telex network and other less convenient and more costly alternatives.