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[Brian Kelsay]

I believe that the looms were first, to partially automate a textile
plant in the New England  area (and save some fingers throwing the
shuttle through the loom).  Around the same time the concept was used in
the player piano.

Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Densmore" <DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com>

> Jacquard created a method of controlling devices, like player pianos
or
> cloth looms, kind of like sending commands to an RS232 port. But Ada
> wrote the first "computer program" to derive an answer from something.
> Hollerith is just a guy who applied Babbage's knowledge to build
> something, sorry no star.
>
> Thanks for the knowledge, I didn't remember Jacquard.
>
> Brian