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Published • Jan 1, 2003
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Authors:
L. A. A. Warnes

Abstract

CALCULATING machines are as old as history, and punched-card control of machines dates back to the early eighteenth century when they were used in France to control looms used for weaving elaborate patterns. In England, Charles Babbage1 produced designs for a mechanical computer that were too far in...

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