Back in the 70's at Plessey Avionics and Communication the ASR33 or it might have been a KSR33 was the device of choice.
The punch tape readers were used to program the Computer Appreciation Naked Mini's which were used to create digital traffic.
It was also used to code the proms again using the punch take the EPROM programmer used an Intel 8080 development system with a bit of additional hardware ISTR the PROMS were 1702's and 5306's
Coding was done on the same machines creating punch tapes as you went there was a little kit to null mistakes on the punch tape it was pretty primitive!
You could also use the Development systems or the Naked Mini's to create the code and then dump it to the punch tapes.
A lot of the time there would be two or three of these machine banging away or reading or writing punch tapes.
I left that project in 1978
I expect everyone remembers the punch tapes that did the rounds of the Naked Ladies
Cheers
Mike T