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    1. Vol 1 Teletype Machines — Vol 1: The Clatter in My Father's Shack A teletype is a typewriter that types by itself, a hundred miles away, and it does it with a five-bit code and a beautiful trick for starting each letter. Here is how it worked — and where I first fell in love with the sound of it.
    2. Vol 2 Teletype Machines — Vol 2: The Machines Four machines carried the electromechanical age: the cast-iron Model 15 that ran the news and the war, its tape-handling sibling the 19, the rugged Model 28, and the Model 33 that walked out of the wire room and became the first computer terminal.