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(Sorry if this is too far off-topic or trite, but I had the fun idea that cloth going through a loom is also a type of sequential-access tape storage. If woven

(Sorry if this is too far off-topic or trite, but I had the fun idea that cloth going through a loom is also a type of sequential-access tape storage. If woven from conductive threads, a read-head is nothing more than testing "does this thread form a closed circuit?", and a write-head is the loom operation of "mechanically transpose these two threads". If you can scroll cloth non-destructively forwards and backwards, that's the core of an electromechanical Turing machine). __ __ _____ __╳__ _____ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ [open] [closed]

fennecfoxy 3y ago
Well, yeah. It would essentially be punch cards in fabric form, in a way. I'm sure someone's tried it before. If you're not familiar with core memory, then look it up (it's cool). The industry borrowed a lot of women from the textiles industries to thread the tiny wires through the iron rings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory