The Epic of Mitorzp (fragment): teleprinter noise as poetry
#dada #pasteup #teleprinter #teletype #art
https://scruss.com/blog/2025/10/31/the-epic-of-mitorzp-fragment/
The Epic of Mitorzp (fragment): teleprinter noise as poetry
#dada #pasteup #teleprinter #teletype #art
https://scruss.com/blog/2025/10/31/the-epic-of-mitorzp-fragment/
I have connected the HP 4952A to the worldwide telex network. I also set up a local connection to the teleprinter.
Check out the video on YouTube with nice teleprinter sound! :)
⌨️🧻 Paper Telex made by Slovenian company Aero Celje and a Siemens T-100 teleprinter (1958). The legendary Aero company appears to be in bankruptcy according to current records.
#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #nostalgie #nostalgi #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #teleprinter #siemens #celje #telex #teletypewriter #Fernschreiber #Telexgerät #RetroComms
Back in the 1960's, some office #teleprinter s had a 'phone dial for entering #Telex numbers; their alphabetic keytops were usually circular or oval. Expensive hybrid models even had a handset for voice calls.
The device in your photo, with contemporary square keytops, could be a custom-built work of art—likely fully functional, given the businesslike grey adapter replacing the numerical keys.
I'd not be surprised to discover one in a future #TARDIS.
This looks like the original setup for the #TuringTest, as proposed by #AlanTuring in his Imitation Game. It uses a #teletype or #teleprinter to communicate with an #ArtificialIntelligence. We're getting there.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-test/
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/teletype/index.html
📷 Teletype ASR 37, Columbia University Computing History
My first experience with a computer was typing out simple #BASIC commands, line by line, on a dumb #teleprinter -- no display monitor. This gadget was connected to a plain old telephone line, which dialed a local switchboard, which connected (at $2 per minute) to a Digital #PDP11 #minicomputer.
If you made a typo, backspacing was verboten. There was no whiteout option. And you certainly could not cursor up and down a scroll of dot-matrix paper.
Ah, memories.
3M Whisper Writer 1000