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.
Il motivo per cui ha usato schede perforate è che Jacquard, in Francia, aveva creato il Telaio Jacquard, che tesseva questi motivi incredibili, controllati da schede perforate, quindi stava solo adattando la tecnologia dell'epoca, e come tutti, usava la tecnologia del proprio tempo, gli anni '30, '40, '50, del 1800. ingranaggi, vapore,meccanismi. Ironicamente, nello stesso anno di nascita di Charles Babbage nacque anche Michael Faraday, che avrebbe rivoluzionato tutto con la dinamo, i trasformatori, tutte quelle cose.