n.a paper ribbon on which text can be recorded in a
code consisting of a
series of punched holes that represent letters and
numbers. The
tape is made by typing the desired
message on a keyboard
similar to that of a typewriter. A device on the
telex machine creates a punched-hole paper
tape recording of the text at the same
time, which can then be fed into another device that
reads and transmits the
message over telephone
lines to another distant
telex machine. At the receiving location, the
message automatically appears as typed text on paper but also as a punched length of paper
tape identical to the original. The
tape can then be re-used as many
times as desired to
create additional typed copies of the
message.
paper
tape with punched holes in a coded pattern recording a
message. When this
tape is played back through a
tape reader it repeats the
message recorded on it.