Jacquard loom

weaving loom controlled by punched cards

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#5828: Punched Cards: The 200-Year Reign of Cardboard Computing

From Jacquard's silk looms to NSA key tapes, how holes in cardboard ran the world for two centuries — and why we can still read them.

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