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From: Invisible
Date: 7 Oct 2009 08:15:48
Message: <4acc8674@news.povray.org>
> There! It is now true.
> 
> I remember seeing a machine in Paisley museum that used recognisable punch cards
> (IIRC about 18" X 24") from the 19th Century. Its output was woven cloth. So (as
> usual) we Scots were there first (if you don't count the Chinese, who did
> everything first). :P

That's nothing. A few months back, I went to the London Science Museum 
and say half of Babbage's *brain* in a pickling jar. o_O


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