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If you mean a telex machine, it has a keyboard like a typewriter and also has a printer. That is why it is also known as a "teleprinter". If you know someone you want to send a message to has a similar telex machine, you can set up a call to their "telex service number", just like a telephone call but with no speech. Then you can type in your message and the the telex machine at the other end of the line will print it out.

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The international telegraphic message-transfer service consisting of a network of teleprinters. Subscribers to a telex service can exchange textual communications and data directly with one another. Telex systems originated in Europe in the early 1930s and were widely used for several decades. The ability to conduct high-speed digital communication over regular telephone lines led to a decline in the use of telex, but it is still used as a data transmission service for applications in which high transmission speeds are not necessary or in areas where more modern data equipment is not available.

Source: Britannica Concise Encyclopedia.

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The telex service is an international network of teleprinters, which can exchange written information and data directly with one another in nearly every part of the world. Telex systems in most countries are operated by the government.

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Telex is antiquated technology ... it's basically somewhere between a telegraph and email. A telex machine was capable of sending or receiving text messages transmitted over telephone lines. Basically you called another telex machine and sat down at yours and typed, and it came out as print on the other end. You can think of it as essentially a typewriter except that where the paper came out could well be on the opposite side of the world.

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Telex machines were used for instantaneous transmission of text

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