[GreenKeys] Where was the "Telegraph" in AT&T?

Harold Hallikainen harold at w6iwi.org
Sun Feb 2 19:43:22 EST 2025



On Sun, February 2, 2025 4:32 pm, Bruce Gentry via GreenKeys wrote:
> For a few weeks I have been viewing YouTube videos of the Connections
> Museum in Seattle, Wa. They are a living museum of telephone gear,
> especially the central office switching systems. They also have a
> display of operational Teletypes. However, how did one send a telegram
> via AT&T? Were the machines for communications within the telephone
> network offices only? For decades I have enjoyed the machines, but aside
> from Western Union and private networks on railroads, know very little
> else about how AT&T carried messages and who they carried them for.
>
>     Bruce Gentry, KA2IVY

It was TWX. See
https://web.archive.org/web/20121209103153/http://www.baudot.net/docs/att--exits-telegraph-biz.pdf





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