Allison J Parent wrote:
>
> <It reads a set of instructions off the punch card, the gears or what hav
> <you interprets the pattern, and finally displays the output on the fabric
> <Sounds like a computer, in the broadest sense. The purists would say tha
> <it's not a computer unless it computes. I'm sure you could do math on it
> <with a few simple modifications though.
>
> The correct catagory is data processing. Specifics are that it's a
> predecessor to current CNC!
>
> Allison
And a Jacquard system doesn't have to worry about all this damned
Y2K nonsense, either.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Received on Wed Jun 17 1998 - 23:09:47 BST