Silicon wafer und screw press: was sie gemeinsam haben
- Schritt 1. Silicon wafer — ist Material für — Integrated circuit. Chips are made on wafers.
- Schritt 2. Integrated circuit — ist Teil von — Mainframe. The hybrid circuits of the System/360.
- Schritt 3. Mainframe — nutzt — Punched card. Programs were entered on punched cards.
- Schritt 4. Punched card — wird verwendet in — Jacquard loom. Each punched card sets one pass of the pattern.
- Schritt 5. Jacquard loom — funktioniert wie — Gutenberg printing press. An analogy, not proven influence: both set type and a chain of punched cards are a replaceable pattern that a machine reproduces over and over.
- Schritt 6. Gutenberg printing press — hat als Teil — Screw press. Gutenberg adapted the screw press known from pressing grapes.