 Perhaps the TABLE is made out of a similar "read only" paper tape reader, or perhaps it reads punched cards.Turing's biographer Andrew Hodges (1983) has written that Turing as a child liked typewriters.A "'miraculous machine' -- a mechanical process which could work on Hilbert's decision problem" (Hodges p. 98) had been suggested by G. H. Hardy, one of Turing's teachers.