This week, we’re taking the wayback machine to 1940 for an informative, fast-paced look at the teleprinter. At the telegram office’s counter, [Mary] recites her well-wishes to the clerk. He fills out ...

My name is Edith Dean. I was born in London and I thought I should always live in London, but after I got married I moved away from London. I was born on 29th February, 1920. I was in London before I ...

[Larry Wall], inventor of Perl, once famously said that programmers have three key virtues: sloth, hubris, and impatience. It’s safe to say that these personality quirks are also present in some ...

In 1941 I joined the WAAF and was trained at Cranwell as a teleprinter operator. In December 1941 I was posted to Broadway, near St James's Park: the plaque at the front door read ‘Registration of ...

The teleprinter of a Lorenz machine used by the Nazis to type messages in plain German that were then encrypted by the machine. You never know what will turn up on eBay. Volunteers from the National ...

Sometimes you can find a real gem on eBay. The UK’s National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park certainly did: It spotted a Nazi teleprinter used during the war for sale on the site and bought it ...