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.
Grunden til at de brugte hulkort, var at Jacquard, i Frankrig, havde skabt Jacquard væven, der vævede disse utrolige mønstre kontrolleret af hulkortene, så han genanvendte bare datidens teknologi, og ligesom alt andet han gjorde, brugte han teknologien fra hans tid, så 1830'erne, 1840'erne, 1850'erne, tandhjul, damp, mekaniske ting. Ironisk nok, født det samme år som Charles Babbage var Michael Faraday, der fuldstændig ville revolutionere alt med dynamoen, transformeren, alle den slags ting.