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.
Sie verwendeten Lochkarten,  weil Jacquard in Frankreich den Jacquard-Webstuhl  geschaffen hatte, der diese unglaublichen Muster,  durch Lochkarten gesteuert, webte. Er wendete die damalige Technologie neu an und wie alles andere, was er tat,  nutzte er die Technologie seiner Zeit, also Mitte des 19. Jh., Zahnräder, Dampf, mechanische Geräte. Ironischerweise im gleichen Jahr geboren wie Charles Babbage war Michael Faraday, der alles komplett revolutionieren sollte mit dem Dynamo,  Transformatoren, allerlei Dingen.