All caps typography was common on teletype machines, such as used by police departments, news, and the then-called Weather Bureau, as well as early computers, such as certain early Apple II models and the ZX81, which had a limited support for lower-case text.
Area code 600 is a rarely-used non-geographic Canadian area code, reserved for specialized telecommunications uses such as Teletype, caller-pays cellular, ISDN and mobile satellite communication services.
This left 610 as the last teletypewriter area code, which outlived the others because it was controlled by Bell Canada and therefore not directly affected by AT&T's exit from teletype.
In a demonstration to the American Mathematical Society conference at Dartmouth College on 11 September 1940, Stibitz was able to send the Complex Number Calculator remote commands over telephone lines by a teletype.
The text adventure The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a piece of interactive fiction based on Douglas Adam's book of the same name, is a teletype-style command-line game.
In December 1928, the company name was changed to Teletype Corporation, and in 1930 Teletype Corporation was sold to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company for $30 million.
Mac Hack played by teletype, was ported to the PDP-10 and was the first computer chess program to be widely distributed.
In August 1967, after H. Paul Rico testified before a Suffolk county grand jury about his conversations with Joseph Barboza concerning the murder of DiSiglio, the Boston SAC sent an urgent teletype to J. Edgar Hoover at 1:03 a.m.
STOIC came with its own primitive but effective file system, and could be booted up with little preliminary work on any 8080-based microprocessor with 24K of memory and a Teletype machine.
The system was implemented under Bell Canada president Thomas Wardrope Eadie as an all-Canadian microwave network for transporting telephone conversations, Teletype messages and television signals.