Telex
The telex network is a switched network of teleprinters similar to a telephone network, for the purposes of sending text-based messages. The term refers to the network, not the teleprinters; point-to-point teleprinter systems had been in use long before telex exchanges were formed starting in the 1930s. Teleprinters evolved from telegraph systems, and like the telegraph they used the presence or absence of a pre-defined level of current to represent the mark or space symbols. This is as opposed to the analog telephone system, which used differing voltages to encode frequency information. For this reason, telex exchanges were entirely separate from the telephone system, with their own signalling standards, exchanges and system of "telex numbers" (the counterpart of a telephone number). When telephone and telex exchange equipment was co-located, which was not uncommon, the different signalling systems would sometimes cause interference.
Telex provided the first common medium for international record communications using standard signalling techniques and operating criteria as specified by the International Telecommunication Union. Customers on any telex exchange could deliver messages to any other, around the world. To lower line usage, telex messages were normally first encoded onto paper tape and then read into the line as quickly as possible. The system normally delivered information at 50 baud or approximately 66 words per minute encoded using the International Telegraph Alphabet No. 2. In the late days of the telex networks, end-user equipment was often replaced by modems and phone lines as well, reducing the telex network to what was effectively a directory service running on the phone network.
Telex (input method)
Telex, also known in Vietnamese as Quốc ngữ điện tín (lit. "national language telex", is a convention for encoding Vietnamese text in plain ASCII characters. Originally used for transmitting Vietnamese text over telex systems, it is now a popular input method for computers.
History
The Telex input method is based on a set of rules for transmitting accented Vietnamese text over telex (máy điện tín) first used in Vietnam during the 1920s and 1930s. Telex services at the time ran over infrastructure that was designed overseas to handle only a basic Latin alphabet, so a message reading "vỡ đê" ("the dam broke") could easily be misinterpreted as "vợ đẻ" ("the wife is giving birth"). Nguyễn Văn Vĩnh, a prominent journalist and translator, is credited with devising the original set of rules for telex systems.
In later decades, common computer systems came with largely the same limitations as the telex infrastructure, namely inadequate support for the large number of characters in Vietnamese. Mnemonics like Telex and Vietnamese Quoted-Readable (VIQR) were adapted for these systems. As a variable-width character encoding, Telex represents a single Vietnamese character as one, two, or three ASCII characters. By contrast, a byte-oriented code page like VISCII takes up only one byte per Vietnamese character but requires specialized software or hardware for input.
Telex (band)
Telex was a Belgian synthpop group formed in 1978 by Marc Moulin, Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers, with the intention of "making something really European, different from rock, without guitar — and the idea was electronic music."
History
In 1979, mixing the aesthetics of disco, punk and experimental electronic music, they released a stripped-down synthesized cover version of "Twist à St. Tropez" by Les Chats Sauvages. They followed up with an ultra-slow cover of "Rock Around the Clock", a relaxed and dispassionate version of Plastic Bertrand's punk song "Ça Plane Pour Moi", and a mechanical cover of "Dance to the Music", originally by Sly Stone. Telex built its music entirely from electronic instruments, employing joyously irreverent humor. The group's debut album, Looking for Saint Tropez, featured the worldwide hit single "Moskow Diskow".
In 1980, Telex's manager asked the group to enter the Eurovision Song Contest. The group entered and were eventually sent to the finals, although they apparently hoped to come in last.
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ALBUMS
- Ultimate Best Of released: 2009
- How Do You Dance? released: 2006
- Wonderful World + Looney Tunes released: 2003
- I (Still) Don't Like Music: Remixes, Volume 2 released: 1999
- I Don't Like Remixes (Original Classics 78-86) released: 1999
- I Don't Like Music released: 1998
- Looking for Saint Tropez released: 1993
- Les rythmes automatiques released: 1989
- Looney Tunes released: 1988
- Wonderful World released: 1984
- Sex released: 1981
- More Than Distance released: 1980
- Neurovision released: 1980
- The Best released:
Ultimate Best Of
Released 2009- Moskow Diskow
- Spike Jones
- Rock Around the Clock
- Dance to the Music
- Eurovision
- The Voice
- Wonderful World
- Beautiful Li(f)e
- Dingo Bells
- Pakmoväst
- Twist à Saint-Tropez
- En Route vers de nouvelles aventures
- We Are All Getting Old
- La Bamba
- On the road again
- Peanuts
- Second Hand
- Cliché
- Raised by Snakes
- I Don't Like Music
- Rendez-vous dans l'Espace
- Finale
Wonderful World + Looney Tunes
Released 2003- L'Amour Toujours
- So Sad
- Raised by Snakes
- It Could Happen to You
- Second Hand
- Tell Me It's a Dream
- Vertigo
- The Voice
- Radio-Radio
- Wonderful World
- I Don't Like Music
- Temporary Chicken
- Spike Jones
- Beautiful Li(f)e
- Dingo Bells
- I Want Your Brain
- Baby, When?
- Peanuts
- Happy End (I Wanna)
- Rendez-Vous Dans L'Espace
I (Still) Don't Like Music: Remixes, Volume 2
Released 1999- Raised by Snakes (Maurice Fulton mix)
- Rendez-vous dans l'Espace (Morgan Geist mix)
- Rock Around the Clock (Buckfunk 3000 mix)
- Dance to the Music (Ian Pooley mix)
- Radio Radio (The Tellurians mix)
- Brainwash (Eddie Flashin' Fowlkes mix)
- Tour de France (Seven Dub mix)
- Spike Jones (T-Power mix)
- I Don't Like Music (Stacey Pullen mix)
- Soul Waves (Pulsinger & Tunakan mix)
- Brainwash (Juan Atkins mix)
- Tour de France (Home Run) (DJ D mix)
- Dance to the Music (reprise) (Ian Pooley mix)
I Don't Like Remixes (Original Classics 78-86)
Released 1999- Moskow Diskow
- Peanuts
- Raised by Snakes
- Rock Around the Clock
- Radio-radio
- Tour de France
- I Don't Like Music
- Temporary Chicken
- Dance to the Music
- Brainwash
- Troppical
- Rendez-vous dans l'espace
- En route vers de nouvelles aventures
- The Voice
- Pakmovast
- Spike Jones
- We Are All Getting Old
- Beautiful Li(f)e
- Ding Bells
- Twist à Saint-Tropez
I Don't Like Music
Released 1998- Moskow Diskow [Carl Craig mix]
- Raised by Snakes [Shake mix]
- Radio-Radio [Le Tone mix]
- Beautiful Li(f)e [16B mix]
- Peanuts [Buckfunk 3000 mix]
- Eurovision [Auto Repeat mix]
- I Don't Like Music [Ian O'Brien mix]
- Twist À Saint-Tropez [Yasuharu Konishi mix]
- En Route Vers de Nouvelles Aventures [I: Cube mix]
- Temporary Chicken [Dr. Rockit's Action Chicken mix]
- The Voice [20/20 Vision mix]
- Moskow Diskow [Glenn Underground mix]
Telex
ALBUMS
- Back to New Wave, Volume 3 released:
Telex
ALBUMS
- Punk's Not Dead released: 1990
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