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Ti Hua Ji: World’s earliest computer is a silk loom built in China 2000 years ago
As China’s largest official scientific body, CAST’s claim to the world’s earliest computer is a big deal. It comes at a time ...
Silk-weaving loom dating to Western Han is world’s oldest known ‘computer hardware’ with corresponding ‘software’, China science body says.
The origin story of software takes us back past punch card computers and Babbage’s Difference Engine to a French weaver called Joseph Marie Jacquard. Jacquard created a way to automate mechanical ...
Computers attached to wooden Industrial Revolution-style looms are transforming home hand weavers into savvy professionals. For years hobbyists would weave rugs or scarves for Christmas presents, but ...
Computers attached to wooden Industrial Revolution-style looms are transforming home hand weavers into savvy professionals. For years hobbyists would weave rugs or scarves for Christmas presents, but ...
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2,000-year-old machine found in China tomb could be binary computer
The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations automatically and produces results.By this fundamental definition, China's ...
Sophisticated silk-weaving loom dating back to the Western Han dynasty used physical pattern cards which acted like ancient software.
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