Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:32:58 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Re: even older tech
From: Michael Walsh <walshmichaelj at gmail.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com> wrote:
> For the original punch card machinery:
>
> http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/
>
>  See the April 14, 2013 post, with photos of the circa 1830 jacquard loom=
s run by the original punch cards, and the card punching machinery.  The ja=
cquard technology is older than that, of course, but these looms have been =
in operation, though slower now, since they were built.
>
> The cartoon is pretty good, too.

Neato!

mjw