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Since 1804! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine
by Stratoscope 2y ago
Since 1804!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine
- renewiltord 2y agoSo _that's_ what a Jacquard loom is. I've seen it mentioned often. Thank you.
- kragen 2y agodobbies automated looms before that
- OogieM 2y agodobby looms are an automated version of draw looms. Some use a draw boy, small child in the loom itself to draw up the warps as required for the patter. Later shortened to dobby.
- ahazred8ta 2y agoThere are some old Jacquard card stacks which are literally the oldest machine readable datasets in existence, a century before Hollerith.
- cmiller1 2y agoThe oldest datasets produced by humans intended to be read by machines. With our advances in digital image processing one could argue a cross section of a tree trunk is a "machine readable dataset"