Absolutely stone age stuff. We had these in 1970 when I worked at Hawker Siddeley Woodford. We had amazingly fast leased telephone lines that would handle 128 bps (not kilobits or megabits) connecting to the mainframe at Hatfield. The main point of the paper tape reader was that you could have your bulk input punched up in advance offline in the "punch room" and then read it in far faster than you could type it yourself on the teletype (normally without printing it at the same time). We shared the terminal among the programmers in the office and I got half an hour three times a week, so every second counted.

Absolutely stone age stuff. We had these in 1970 when I worked at Hawker Siddeley Woodford. We had amazingly fast leased telephone lines that would handle 128 bps (not kilobits or megabits) connecting to the mainframe at Hatfield. The main point of the paper tape reader was that you could have your bulk input punched up in advance offline in the "punch room" and then read it in far faster than you could type it yourself on the teletype (normally without printing it at the same time). We shared the terminal among the programmers in the office and I got half an hour three times a week, so every second counted.

P.S. Thanks Lana for the punching, 50 years ago but not forgotten !