Teleprinter
A teletypewriter also referred to as a teletype machine is a now largely obsolete electro mechanical typewriter that was used to communication typed messages from point to point through a simple electrical communication channel. A predecessor to the teletypewriter was the stock ticker system , which was developed in the 1870s as a method data over long distance telegraph lines and displaying the data in alphanumeric characters. The system employed a specially designed telegraph typewriter on one end and tickers, which printed stock quotes on the other end. Most tele type writers used the five bit baudot code which was devised around 1875 by a frenchman named email baudot. The five bits limited the character set to 32 codes , but a FIGS ( e.g. figures snift) shift key enabled it to also type numbers and special characyers . sprcialized versions had FIGS code for specific applications such as specific applications such as wnether reports. The quality of the p...