[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 ...

SPEAKING at the annual dinner of the Insurance Institute at Birmingham on Jan 22, Sir Kingsley Wood, Postmaster—General, said that the Post Office hopes to introduce in a few months' time a ...

In the dead of night a teleprinter chattered away, a few characters at a time, printing complete rubbish. Was it spirits or something more earthly to blame? Many years ago I was in charge of an ...

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 ...

You may want to rethink your online shopping habits after learning about a rare find recently made by a museum in the UK. According to The Guardian, a volunteer at the National Museum of Computing ...

A World War II-era machine — used to send personal messages between Hitler and his generals by encrypting plain German text into secret code — has been found on eBay for 9.50 pounds! Volunteers from ...

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 ...