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The Pentium as a Navajo weaving

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The Pentium as a Navajo weaving

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Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 months ago

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Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenl...

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This is funny as the first punch card program was designed to automate looms:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine

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