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There was a best paper at CHI 2012 about this subject, wish I could find pdf but here's ACM link: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2208280&dl=ACM&coll=DL&CFID=

• monk_e_boy 12y ago
  Looms and the history of looms were featured on 'How do they do that' (or a similarly titled) TV Programme that is shown here on channel Dave. Looms are pretty well known in the history of computing and we learned about them during our A Level and Degree (UK) ... but I love to see rather odd historical 'computers' or programmable devices. It'd be neat to see a loom take either punch card or textile as input. So you could write to the textile, use it as memory and instructions. Then when the program is finished just cut it up and make a rather fetching cardigan from it (the textile, not the punch cards - silly!)
  • Ollinson 12y ago
    Also featured on Connections (BBC James Burke). A particularly memorable episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itd-4lMoXgI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itd-4lMoXgI