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Перевод: teleprinter

[существительное]
телеграфный буквопечатающий аппарат; телетайп

Тезаурус:

1. As Bourn was such a new station, we only had the bare essentials in the way of equipment, mainly the Stevenson Screen with its thermometers, an aneroid barometer in the office and the aforementioned teleprinter.
2. Next to the Met Office was the teleprinter room where yards of paper would come spewing out from the machine at regular intervals, bearing coded weather reports from all the other Met Stations in the United Kingdom and a few weather ships in the Atlantic, and these had to be painstakingly plotted on blank charts of the British Isles.
3. He was young and madly enthusiastic for all things meteorological, with the exception of the teleprinter which he was always messing up, getting the paper stuck and so on, and leaving us to sort it out when we came on duty.
4. Reel after reel of voice recordings and intercepted teleprinter messages were recovered daily.
5. Every hour on the hour there we were, slaves to that teleprinter machine and its little bell.
6. After a few months of doing this several times each day and night, most of us could plot at the same speed as the information came in on the teleprinter.
7. She would come back to camp after a day off, call in at the office to see what was going on, and if we were all running around like headless chickens, snowed under with miles of paper from the teleprinter, and an irate Wing CO was tearing his hair out because the visibility had suddenly slumped from three miles to fifty yards and all his boys were up there somewhere running out of fuel, Rosemary would calmly take over the plotting while one of us rushed out to the screen to read the instruments, or go into the screaming teleprinter to shut off the insistent ear-piercing bell which was reminding everybody within hearing that we were late in sending in the hourly observation.
8. Every three hours the Met Assistant had to plot a chart - that is, working from the coded symbols sent on the teleprinter, draw up on a large blank map of Great Britain the weather at that time over the whole country.
9. This teleprinter machine was a temperamental beast and had to be carefully watched to make sure it didn't run out of paper, or chew it into shreds or otherwise make a mess of things, and it was one of our duties as Met Assistants to keep it in order.
10. There were no aircraft or aircrew and the Met girls' sole job was plotting charts, a new one every hour, and collecting the teleprinter reports as they came in from each of the out-stations in the Group.
11. Then followed a mad rush out to the instruments, a frantic look at the sky and the visibility, a quick scribbling on a pad to write out the message, and a scramble into the teleprinter room to tap it out.
12. The terminals worked on a line by line basis, with the screen information scrolling upwards just as it would on a teleprinter roll.