It was capable of iteration, conditional branching and parallel processing, and it was programmable using punched cards, an idea Babbage took from Jacquard's loom.
Bio je sposoban provoditi iteracije, uvjetna grananja i istodobno procesiranje, a moglo ga se programirati pomoću bušenih kartica, zamisli koju je Babbage preuzeo od Jacquardovog tkalačkog stana.