I thought this was pretty interesting. Early computer code was essentially knitted! (Or woven…or beaded…it’s not totally clear.)
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Too cool! Thanks for the share. I passed the link on to friends. Textile people are damn smart, yeah?
Knitters and weavers were programmers before computers were a twinkle in someone’s eye.
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That was really interesting. When I was in my teens my dad went to university to get his engineering degree. Sometimes on the weekends he took me to the computer lab and I typed his punch cards. One mistake and the card had to be tossed in the garbage. There were dozens of cards for a few lines of code so I ‘saved’ a lot of punch cards. This link reminded me of those Saturday mornings we spent together. 
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