If you wanted to send a longer text message to someone else you used this machine to punch holes in a long paper strip. Later you dialed the recepients phone number and passed the paper strip through the reader, you did this to maximise the speed of transmission. You had to pay for the dial-up-conection by short time units.
The message was printed on a simmilar machine on the recepients side.
This wonder of technology got replaced by our modern fax-machine later.
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