20 Aug
1998
20 Aug
'98
5:05 p.m.
She said that they were invented by Hollerith
at
the end of the last century for use with the census. Was I drunk or
did
we just go through a whole discussion about the cards being invented for
the Jacquard loom?
Different types of punched cards. Hollerith invented the modern
computer punch card. The Jacquard loom used punched cards in a linked
belt type arrangement, similar to a player piano, to control the shuttle
of his loom. Jacquard had more in common with pianos than computers.
Jack Peacock