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Looks to be about mid 1950s.
ferdy
Thu 11-10-2011
Looks like some sort of older Telex (those under 40, Google it!) :-P
JRB
Thu 11-10-2011
I'm just over 40, been building computers for 20 of them, and even I didn't know what a Telex was until hitting the WiKi. Long story short on this thing: the world's first texting phone. Very interesting.
Jason
Thu 11-10-2011
cooool
A D Nilsen
Thu 11-10-2011
An ancient Fax. Thanks for an inside view Motts!
LucieLou
Thu 11-10-2011
I'd love to have seen it in operation.
MomPink
Fri 11-11-2011
<Will be 41 in few months and I had NO idea what the heck this was until I read the comments lol.

The grandfather of texting. :D
MamaToFiveInPA
Fri 11-11-2011
I can just picture the line of teenage girls now...
Jim
Fri 11-11-2011
keys look like there in English, I would think be in Russian
bobo miller
Fri 11-11-2011
Plug 'er in and fire 'er up. Let's see what happens.
Larry D
Fri 11-11-2011
Wallpaper for us computer geeks please!

Very Steampunk
Binky
Fri 11-11-2011
Looks useful for call-in dictation.
Icewox
Sat 11-12-2011
I recall when everyone only had one clunky dial phone in their house. No call waiting, no message options, nothing. Now I can get a mobile phone wrist watch, just like Dick Tracy and Go-Go Gomez!
autoguy
Sat 11-12-2011
Yah, that's a Telex device all right. The hotel must have had a lot of high-falutin' guests or it's left over from the military.
gulliver foyle
Sun 11-13-2011
Not to reveal my age, but I remember when these were in service in the US, along side the first rotary fax machines, where you put a piece of paper on a drum, locked it down, closed the lid, the drum and paper would rotate and a stylus went back and forth to print out the fax. One page took about three-four minutes and you could barely read it. Times sure have changed.
eldokid@aol.com
Mon 11-14-2011
*Koff* eldokid is old *Koff*

Sorry...continue on. :D
MamaToFiveInPA
Mon 11-14-2011
Hey! I'm not THAT old! That fax machine I referred to dates to about 1979, I used one when I worked at a bank at that time. We had a mainframe the size of a room on a raised floor that had to be kept very cool or it would overheat. This was before PCs and the internet became popular although geeks like me had PCs that we either built or bought on time because we had to have one. Ahhh memories, I could go on forever about computers and technology. But I won't!
eldokid@aol.com
Thu 11-17-2011
(Thank goodness...)

JUST KIDDING!! Hey I remember 1979 pretty well lol. I was 8 years old, and life was good in the 2nd Grade. :)

I remember my mom had bought me a "re-built" computer in the 80's sometime, and the person who had "re-built" it hadn't erased everything that was on it from the previous person...how interesting THAT was. Nothing dirty, just old junk files that I didn't understand since I was just a child at the time. :) That stupid thing never did work well, now that I think about it...

:P Ah, memories. I am such a geek myself, so more power to ya friend. :)
MamaToFiveInPA
Fri 11-18-2011
Too cool, I really want it...
Misty
Sun 11-20-2011
Even the paper is intact. Wonder how long they actually used that equipment?
AvalonSeeker
Wed 11-30-2011
nope.............my brain's dumb
kevin mass....
Mon 01-09-2012
I know how ! The thing probably would still work with a little dusting, electricity and a phone line. Of course one would need a similar machine to recieve the message.
liza
Fri 02-10-2012

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