Turns out, cards were in use way before they got conscripted by computers. Jacquard looms ... 300 punch cards and a card reader you can see near the bottom left corner of the machine.

a dedicated group of people own old commercial knitting machines, and with some work, they can use archived punch cards with patterns that predate the computerized world. The Jacquard loom was ...

a machine for cutting such cards, and related patent models. In addition, Textiles has coverlets, shawls, and fabric samples woven with such looms. The Englishman Charles Babbage greatly admired ...

In other words, the machine could replace the role of a person manually selecting which strings would appear on top. Once the punch cards were created, Jacquard looms could quickly make pictures ...

Although punch cards were used in earlier looms and music ... Not every weaver was happy when they foresaw their livelihood taken away by machine. Looms were burned, and Jacquard was assaulted.

When I saw the sewing machine that read which string ... weavers there how to write the designs into the punch cards and to locate the looms that are a marriage of tradition and technology.

Punch cards were initially an emergent innovation in a niche environment (of mechanical looms and tabulating machines). But as their utility was exploited for a broader range of purposes ...

a machine for cutting such cards, and related patent models. In addition, Textiles has coverlets, shawls, and fabric samples woven with such looms. The Englishman Charles Babbage greatly admired ...

Punch Card Machines NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports on the voting machine business. Punch card machines, so widely-criticized during the recent presidential balloting in Florida, are used by some 30 ...

The holes were punched by a human operator at a keypunch machine or on a stand-alone card reproducer. Punch cards were fed into computers by card readers. Punch cards were synonymous with data ...