What is the first computer? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

18 Jun 1998

At 09:41 AM 6/17/98 -0400, you wrote:
...
 I think there was an automated loom that was invented
in the 17th century
that wove a pattern based on a template, but I don't recall if this was a 
IIRC, this is where our modern-day punched cards came from.

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