Re: the early teletype

 > Telex calls were charged by the minute and most Telex machines had paper
 > tape readers and punches, so what one usually did was to type up the
 > message on tape first, then make the call and run the tape through at
 > full speed.

Later, say late 70s / early 80s, devices like HP 264x terminals with
cassette data storage drives were used to pre-type and store messages,
then send from tape.  I saw this exact setup used in a government office
in Saudi Arabia.

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