Telex line network is a station-to-station switched network of teleprinters similar to a telephone network, using telegraph-grade connecting circuits for two-way text-based messages.
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Telex line network is a station-to-station switched network of teleprinters similar to a telephone network, using telegraph-grade connecting circuits for two-way text-based messages.
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Telex line was a major method of sending written messages electronically between businesses in the post–World War II period.
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Telex line provided the first common medium for international record communications using standard signalling techniques and operating criteria as specified by the International Telecommunication Union.
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Telex line began in Germany as a research and development program in 1926 that became an operational teleprinter service in 1933.
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Telex line served as the forerunner of modern fax, email, and text messaging – both technically and stylistically.
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The country codes for the first countries to adopt Telex line are single letters, while other countries have two-letter codes.
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Telex line billing was always by connected duration, so minimizing the connected time saved money.
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Telex line could be used as a rudimentary but functional carrier of information from one IT system to another, in effect a primitive forerunner of electronic data interchange.
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Telex line numbering plan, usually a six-digit number in the United States, was based on the major exchange where the customer's telex machine terminated.
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Bell Telex line users had to select which IRC to use, and then append the necessary routing digits.
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Telex line began in the UK as an evolution from the 1930s Telex line Printergram service, appearing in 1932 on a limited basis.
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Telex line is still in operation but not in the sense described in the CCITT Blue Book documentation.
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Telex line has been mostly superseded by fax, email, and SWIFT, although radiotelex is still used in the maritime industry and is a required element of the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System.
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