[rescue] More IBM emulation fun

[Charles Monett]

This particular discussion is starting to remind me of something XKCD 
covered about programming - going past the point of "a magnetized needle 
and a steady hand".

(http://xkcd.com/378/)

Robert Darlington wrote:
> Actually they predate the census stuff by many decades.  Joseph Jacquard
> designed a loom for the textile industry around 1801 that was programmed
> with punch cards for producing different patterns in the woven fabric.
>
> -Bob