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.
La razón para usar tarjetas perforadas fue que Jacquard, en Francia, había creado el telar de Jacquard, que tejía esos patrones increíbles controlados por tarjetas perforadas, de modo que él simplemente reasignó la tecnología del momento, y como todo lo demás que hizo, usó la tecnología de su época, 1830, 1840, 1850, ruedas dentadas, vapor, dispositivos mecánicos.