Editing Teleprinter (section)

==Obsolescence of teleprinters==

Although printing news, messages, and other text at a distance is still universal, the dedicated teleprinter tied to a pair of leased copper wires was made functionally obsolete by the [[fax]], personal computer, [[inkjet printer]], [[email]], and the Internet.

In the 1980s, [[packet radio]] became the most common form of digital communications used in amateur radio. Soon, advanced multimode electronic interfaces such as the AEA PK-232 were developed, which could send and receive not only packet, but various other modulation types including [[baudot code|Baudot]]. This made it possible for a home or laptop computer to replace teleprinters, saving money, complexity, space and the massive amount of paper which mechanical machines used.