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You might like to check out the jacquard loom, and it's relation to early programming. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine https://en.m.wikipedia.

• userbinator 2y ago
  ...and its relation to raster graphics: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine#The_woven_silk_prayer_book https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine#The_woven_s... It is estimated that 200,000 to 500,000 punch cards were necessary to encode the pages, at 160 threads per cm (400 threads per inch). A rough calculation from the pagecount and dimensions gives approximately 40MB of bitmap data for each page, or 80-200 bytes (640-1600 bits) per punched card. You can see the whole thing here: https://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/92123/ https://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/ht...