Playing back the files is a bit cumbersome however as the unit has to query up the whole file in order to fast forward or rewind which takes up to a minute sometimes.

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"With the telex you could actually chat with the editor there and then but with e-mail, if something goes wrong during transmission, you can't know it immediately and you get a query on why you did not file, " he says.

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