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INSIDE those OLD pinball machines (www.youtube.com)

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First, wear your dust mask. Who knows where these machines have been?

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[-] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

Oh yeh, things like old looms? That ran on punch cards to program the pattern?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine
First prototyped in 15th century.
And all the iterations on it in the 18th and 19th century. Very cool tech

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