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Originally Posted by peter_scott
The noise is an essential part of the nostalgia!
Peter  |
And the hot-oil smell you got when opening the cover.
I never really had thta much to do with purely-mechanical teleprinters; they were being phased-out and replaced by quieter, more-compact devices like the Teletype-43 and also the Texas Instruments "Silent-700" thermal-printers.
Strangest one though was a Tektronix thermal printer that used silver-coated paper and a wide, thin CRT whose 'window' was the width of the paper. A sort-of hybrid between a dot-matrix printer and a fax, it was used to send combined Roman-and-Japanese-character-set documents.