SPEAKING at the annual dinner of the Insurance Institute at Birmingham on Jan 22, Sir Kingsley Wood, Postmaster—General, said that the Post Office hopes to introduce in a few months' time a ...

[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 the dead of night a teleprinter chattered away, a few characters at a time, printing complete rubbish. Was it spirits or something more earthly to blame? Many years ago I was in charge of an ...

While unquestionably old-fashioned, a teleprinter in use may look somewhat familiar to the texters and instant messengers of today. The device allowed people to transmit printed messages to each other ...

The teleprinter for the Lorenz cipher machine, which Hitler used to message his top generals A historic machine used to swap top secret messages between Hitler and his generals has been found ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A British museum has been searching for parts of the Lorenz cipher machine, used by the Nazis in World War II to send secret messages. So when sharp-eyed museum volunteers happened upon what appeared ...

A short film showing how the Teleprinter works.