Before the programmable computer, there was the programmable loom. I'd read about Jacquard looms, but until I visited Norwich's Bridewell museum, I'd never seen one. From Wikipedia: The…
Philip Elmer-DeWitt has been covering Apple since 1983 — mostly for Time Magazine (28 years), later for Fortune (9 years), where he wrote a daily blog called Apple 2.0. [Read more.]