We think of punched cards as old-fashioned, but still squarely part of the computer age. Turns out, cards were in use way before they got conscripted by computers. Jacquard looms are one famous ...

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This punched card machine, called a collating reproducer, mechanically feeds and reads punched cards from two hoppers for determining whether one card is greater than, equal to, or less than the other ...