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.
Agora, o motivo de se usar cartões perfurados é que Jacquard, na França, criou o tear de Jacquard, que tecia estes padrões incríveis controlados por cartões perfurados, então ele apenas deu novo uso à tecnologia da época, e como tudo o mais que fez, ele usou a tecnologia de sua era, décadas de 1830, 1840, 1850, engrenagens, vapor, componentes mecânicos. Ironicamente, Michael Faraday nasceu no mesmo ano que Charler Babbage, ele revolucionaria completamente tudo com o dínamo, os transformadores, e todo este tipo de coisas.