YouTuber Marc Verdiell, a.k.a. CuriousMarc, has turned a 1930s teletype machine into a Linux terminal. To do that, he had to make circuitry and programming that translates five-bit Baudot code into ...

If you’ve ever used a real TeleType machine or seen a movie with a newsroom, you know that one TeleType makes a lot of noise and several make even more.[CuriousMarc] acquired the silent replacement, a ...

Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/10554017/10554018" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player ...

Readers with not too many years under their belts may recall a time when the classic background sound effect for radio and television news programs included a staccato mechanical beat, presumably made ...

My first exposure to computers was via alphabetic art in the third grade. A 1970s geek dad (father to my friend Brian Nicoletti), visited our classroom with a teletype machine, and connected it, via ...

For years, the Department of Veterans Affairs has distributed teletype machines called TTYs for free to help some deaf, hearing-impaired or blind veterans make text-based calls from their home ...

I have always been interested in electronics engineering ingenuity used to solve “impossible” problems. One such problem was the task of deciphering the German Army's most secret transmissions during ...