Thursday, February 28, 2008
Humble origins
(1) has been doing the rounds on the internet lately. Logically extending it, I stumbled across the device (2)
Identify (2), and put fundaes connecting(1) and (2).
Madan, thanks for pointing me towards 1 :-) All the rest of you, keep sending stuff in to [email protected]!
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jayanth, Anonymous, shivathilak, madhur, duriel, udupendra and yaksha
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(2) is the Jacquard loom. It is possibly the earliest example of a device programmable via an external storage device (i.e. Punch cards). All the famous punch-card computers, starting from Babbage’s analytical engine itself, were inspired by the Jacquard loom.