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>>>>You should have seen those Hollerith machines crank!
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>>Actually, they did have Morse "Code" way back when.
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>Eric;
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>Several of my interests in life - Amateur Radio, Radio Teletype, Communications, Engineering, Computers, and history.
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>First use of punched paper to control weaving mills - 1725
>Morse Code - 1837
>Telephone - 1876
>Dr. Hollerith - 1890 (U.S. Census, using punched cards)
>Radio Teletype - 1903
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>Each of the above used some form of hole punched in paper or cardstock to convey intelligence.
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>Tom
The difference between true and false is .5 micro volts. The .5 mv boost allows electrons to jumb across the molecular width channels etched into silicon. You forgot John Von Nueman. We are, after all, all Von Nueman machines.
Imagination is more important than knowledge
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