Telex is a telecommunication service that provides text-based message exchange over the circuits of the public switched telephone network or by private lines. The technology operates on switched station-to-station basis with See more

Telex began in Germany as a research and development program in 1926 that became an operational teleprinter service in 1933. The service, operated by the German Reichspost had a speed of 50 baud, which is approximately 66 words per minute. See more

Teletypewriter Exchange Service
The Teletypewriter Exchange Service (TWX) was developed by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in the United … See more

Canada-wide automatic teleprinter exchange service was introduced by the CPR Telegraph Company and CN Telegraph in … See more

The term "telex" may refer to the service, the network, the devices, or the actual message. Point-to-point teleprinter systems had been in use long before telex exchanges were built … See more

Telex messages are routed by addressing them to a telex address, e.g., "14910 ERIC S", where 14910 is the subscriber number, ERIC is an abbreviation for the subscriber's name (in this case Telefonaktiebolaget L.M. Ericsson in Sweden) and S is … See more

Telex began in the UK as an evolution from the 1930s Telex Printergram service, appearing in 1932 on a limited basis. This used the telephone network in conjunction with a Teleprinter 7B and signalling equipment to send a message to another subscriber with a … See more