17 Jun
1998
17 Jun
'98
4:09 p.m.
Allison J Parent wrote:
<It reads a set of instructions off the punch card, the gears or what hav
<you interprets the pattern, and finally displays the output on the fabric
<Sounds like a computer, in the broadest sense. The purists would say tha
<it's not a computer unless it computes. I'm sure you could do math on it
<with a few simple modifications though.
The correct catagory is data processing. Specifics are that it's a
predecessor to current CNC!
Allison
And a Jacquard system doesn't have to worry about all this damned
Y2K nonsense, either.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_