XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2024-11-15 21:23, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   > On 2024-11-15, Scott Lurndal  wrote:   
   >   
   >> "Carlos E.R."  writes:   
   >>   
   >>> On 2024-11-15 00:11, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Damn, the things one remembers...   
   >>>   
   >>> They were in use at my time, somewhere, but I never saw one. Faxes were   
   >>> what they used.   
   >>>   
   >>> Did teletypes use phone lines, with an audio coupler? Or dedicated lines?   
   >>   
   >> Yes.   
   >>   
   >>   (both)   
   >   
   > Well put.  :-)   
   >   
   > Common dial-up services were Telex (Baudot, typically with Teletype   
   > model 32s, although a PPOE used a Siemens machine), and TWX   
   > (Teletypewriter Exchange), which ran ASCII, typically on Teletype   
   > model 33s.   
   >   
      
   I suppose an operator had to type directly at the machine. Or, was there   
   a method to type at some kind of offline machine, then take over   
   something, like perforated tape?   
      
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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