[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sometimes you can find a real gem on eBay. The UK’s National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park certainly did: It spotted a Nazi teleprinter used during the war for sale on the site and bought it ...

In 1941 I joined the WAAF and was trained at Cranwell as a teleprinter operator. In December 1941 I was posted to Broadway, near St James's Park: the plaque at the front door read ‘Registration of ...