[Barrie Yates]

Originally Posted by Gremlin

That reminds of when I started out as an apprentice enginner in 1955. We did a lot of work in the cotton industry and some looms were programmed to make patterned cloth with big tapes with holes in to control the different coloured shuttles. It's too far back to remember every detail but I seem to remember the make was Dobby.

I started my apprenticeship in Jan '56 at Prestige, Burnley. I remember that Sales/Finance had a "computer" of sorts that used individual punched paper cards about the size of a postcard - Hollerith was the manufacturer. If they had a problem they had to call in the company technicians, none of the electrical dept. ever worked on it.