[3] The TWX service was sold to Western Union in 1969,[4] but it remained an industry standard until 1981, when it was converted to the Telex II system.
As such, the content tended to focus less on the technical aspects of telegraph/Teletype operations and more on practical usage in an office environment.
Each issue featured industry news, product evaluations, and testimonials from office managers extolling the virtues of the teletypewriter.
[2] Although most of the articles were published without a byline, some of the magazine's content has been attributed to science-fiction writer William Tenn, who was working as a technical editor for AT&T's Bell Labs at the time.
Few people actually read the magazine, and those that did accused it of being little more than "twenty pages of fluff and advertisements for products with a niche market at best".