Now, the reason they used punch cards was that Jacquard, in France, had created the Jacquard loom, which was weaving these incredible patterns controlled by punch cards, so he was just repurposing the technology of the day, and like everything else he did, he's using the technology of his era, so 1830s, 1840s, 1850s, cogs, steam, mechanical devices. Ironically, born the same year as Charles Babbage was Michael Faraday, who would completely revolutionize everything with the dynamo, transformers, all these sorts of things.
Razlog zbog kojeg su koristili bušene kartice je Jacquard u Francuskoj, koji je kreirao Jacquardov tkalački stan, i koji je tkao te nevjerojatne uzorke koje su kontrolirale bušene kartice. Dakle, on je samo promijenio svrhu tehnologije tog doba i kao sve drugo što je radio, koristio je tehnologiju svog doba, dakle 1830-ih, 1840-ih, 1850-ih, zupčanike, paru, mehaničke uređaje. Ironično, rođen iste godine kao i Charles Babbage je Michael Faraday, koji će potpuno revolucionizirati sve s dinamom, transformatorom i sve takve stvari.