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Who is credited with the idea of using punch cards to control patterns in a waving machine?

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Pascal
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Hollerith
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babbage
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jacquard
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The correct option is C jacquard

jacquard is credited with the idea of using punch cards to control patterns in a waving machine.

Punch card. Early method of data storage used with early computers. Punch cards also known as Hollerith cards and IBM cards are paper cards containing several punched or perforated holes that were punched by hand or machine to represent data.

Punched cards date back to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries when they were used to “program” cloth-making machinery and looms. In the 1880s and 1890s, Herman Hollerith used them with his tabulators—a core product of what would eventually become IBM. The standard punched card, originally invented by Herman Hollerith, was first used for vital statistics tabulation by the New York City Board of Health and several states. After this trial use, punched cards were adopted for use in the 1890 census.


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