On 2026Jan 14,, at 12:12 PM, Adrian Godwin via cctalk <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 8:04 PM David Wade via cctalk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> In the UK telegrams and I assume from this listing:-
>>
>> https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/192535576139
>>
>> were printed on gummed tape that was stuck onto a card for delivery.....
>>
>
> Exactly that. I've also seen (in films?) people pulling that tape off a
> machine and reading the single-line text off the tape, unlike telex and
> teletype machines where it's printed on wider paper. But it looks no more
> than 10mm wide.
The industry nomenclature TMU is:
- page teleprinter (prints multiple lines on a page-width roll of
paper, e.g. Teletype Models ASR-33, 19, 28)
- tape teleprinter (prints a long line on a narrow strip of paper
tape, e.g. Teletype Model 14)
The paper tape for standard tape-printers is 3/8” wide.
