translation.en: Now, the reason they used punch cards was that Jacquard, in France, had created the Jacquard loom, which was weaving these incredible patterns controlled by punch cards, so he was just repurposing the technology of the day, and like everything else he did, he's using the technology of his era, so 1830s, 1840s, 1850s, cogs, steam, mechanical devices. Ironically, born the same year as Charles Babbage was Michael Faraday, who would completely revolutionize everything
translation.zh: 之所以用那么多打孔卡片是因为有提花机 法国创造了提花机 受打孔卡片所控制，可以织出这些的不可思议的图案 而他当时就在为今天的科技在准备 跟所有他所做的其他事情一样 他在用他当时19世纪30,40,50年代的科技,齿轮,蒸汽机器什么的 具有讽刺意味的是,跟他在同一年出生的 还有迈克尔 法拉第 法拉第最后彻底地将所有东西都改进了