Punch cards have been used to control the operation of machinery from the early nineteenth century, when the Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard patented an attachment to a loom in which a series of ...

Developed by the French silk-weaver, Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), to control its operation, the loom used a chain of cards punched with holes in a continuous loop. Although punch cards were ...

The loom from the dawn of the 19th century has had great implications for computing. The idea of using punch cards to instruct and control a system became the basis of computer programming.

Jacquard’s key idea was to store brocade patterns on perforated cards that could be fed through the loom, with one card ... Aiken made stacks of Jacquard punch cards operate in tandem, with ...

Punch cards allowed information to be taken ... the cards were inspired in part by those used to control patterns on the Jacquard textile loom. Hollerith’s cards contained data arranged by ...

Before IBM, before punch-card computers, before Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, one of the very first machines that could run something like what we now call a "program" was used to make fabric.

(1) See loyalty punch card. (2) An early storage medium made of thin cardboard stock that held data as patterns of punched holes. Also called "punched" cards, each of the 80 or 96 columns held one ...

He traveled to Indonesia’s textile center, Bandung, and learned from weavers there how to write the designs into the punch cards and to locate the looms that are a marriage of tradition and ...

Punch cards have been used to control the operation of machinery from the early nineteenth century, when the Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard patented an attachment to a loom in which a series of ...

Those old enough to have encountered punch cards in their lifetime are probably glad to be rid of their extremely low data density and the propensity of tall stacks to tip over. But obsolete as ...