Re: Ada on punched cards?

[Paul A Storm <paul.a.storm@lmco.com>]

Stephen Leake wrote:
> 
> Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever written an Ada program on
> punched cards?
> 
> And if you have to ask "what's a punched card", you don't want to know
> :).
> 
> Punched cards disappeared from the machines I had access to before
> 1983, so I doubt it. But the topic came up recently, and I figured
> that's a perfect question for this group!
> 
> --
> -- Stephe

"Through her persistent correspondence, she came to know and work with
Charles Babbage, inventor of the
"Analytical Engine." Babbage's machine was a precursor to the modern
computer. Author Teri Perl described how [Ada] Lovelace compared the
engine to the Jacquard loom, which also used punch cards: 

"As in modern punch cards, the patterns of holes correspond to
mathematical symbols. In Lady [Ada] Lovelace's words, 'We may say most
aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns  just as the
Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.'"

"Thus Ada Byron Lovelace joined metaphorically the symbols of both the
Industrial Age and the Information
Age: the loom, the target of the Luddites; and the computer, the target
of the Y2K bug. "
http://mbbnet.umn.edu/doric/girls.html

ADA, COUNTESS OF LOVELACE (1815-1852)

Eldest daughter of Lord Byron, known as the first computer programmer.
Her name, Ada, is today used in Military Computer language. She
developed a system of punch cards to solve mathematical equations using
the Jacquard card system (1801) of looms used to weave fabric patterns. 
http://www.wic.org/artwork/ada.htm

"Ada" invented computer punch cards.
;-)

Paul Storm
-- 
My perspicacity is only eclipsed by my pertinacity