Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe) Newsgroups: net.college Subject: re: re: does anyone believe this? Message-ID: <145@ttidcc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Nov-84 15:09:59 EST Article-I.D.: ttidcc.145 Posted: Wed Nov 14 15:09:59 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Nov-84 04:27:31 EST Organization: TTI, Santa Monica, CA. Lines: 13 Automatic looms invented by Hollerith?!? Sorry. Jacquard invented the punched card controlled loom. Hollerith may have gotten the idea for punch card processing machines from them, but he certainly didn't invent them. He hadn't even been born yet. -- The Polymath (Jerry Hollombe) Opinions expressed here are my own and Transaction Technology, Inc. unrelated to anyone else's whether living, 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. dead, or imaginary. Santa Monica, CA 90405 (213) 450-9111, ext. 2483 {garfield,lasspvax,linus,cmcl2,seismo}!philabs!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe