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Jacquard looms are even older than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine
by arethuza 4y ago
Jacquard looms are even older than that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine
- JoeAltmaier 4y agoI don't go back that far. My first computer was an Altair 8800.
- arethuza 4y agoI once met a chap who had done programming with a hand drill.... Ancient mainframe controlling a steel plant, booted from a paper tape that had decades before been replaced with a leather strap. He need to alter something in the boot process - so had to resort to a hand drill :-)