Meanings
plural teletapes
- historicalA message of up to 200 words transmitted by telegraph at the post office.
[…] sending telegrams of 50 words, teleposts of 100 words, and teletapes of 200 words for 25 cents, […]
1860, John Alexander Anderson, A Postal Telegraph Essential to the Freedom of the American Press and the Prosperity of the American People2 more examples
Use of electronic converters for the automatic conversion: 1. of punched cards into teletapes 2. of punched cards or teletapes into magnetic tapes […]
1962, International Railway Congress Association, Bulletin, volume 39, numbers 1-6, page 76The long table was a tangle of teletapes and phones and transceivers. A situation map covered one wall. Information was being fed into the pool of typists.
2015, Brian Garfield, Line of Succession
Origin
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