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by arethuza 1223 days ago
Jacquard looms are even older than that.

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

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I don't go back that far. My first computer was an Altair 8800.
I once met a chap who had done programming with a hand drill....

Ancient mainframe controlling a steel plant, booted from a paper tape that had decades before been replaced with a leather strap. He need to alter something in the boot process - so had to resort to a hand drill :-)