The displays in "The Robots of Death" - and lots of other episodes - are from the BBC's ANCHOR character generator, which used analogue electronics to generate the curved letterforms, and could read a stream of characters from paper tape (the "snake" is an example of this). I think we actually get to see an ANCHOR system in "Image of the Fendahl" (next to a rather splendid mockup of a PDP-11):
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