The first computer was French? 100 years before Turing!

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The first computer was French? 100 years before Turing!




by Christophe » 16/06/19, 19:21

I already knew (by far) Jacquard machines and I already had a lot of technological respect for looms in general, but yesterday I had the opportunity to see one in real life and that's hallucinating with ingenuity:

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Well, I think Jacquard looms https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9tier_Jacquard are the first computers ... more than 100 years before the work of Turing https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing !

Psychologically, the personal computer has been accepted much more easily, yet it has also contributed to the destruction of countless jobs! The "revolt of secretaries and sténos" never took place! : Cheesy:

We could consider the organs of barbarism https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgue_de_Barbarie as also the precursors of computers (Jacquard may have been inspired!)

There may be much older machines (Egypt, Persian?) That could be programmable?
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