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		userbinator on April 12, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Transcribing Piano Rolls, the Pythonic Way Also interesting that we had digital data storage, in the form of punched cards and tape, decades before digital computers.

vajrabum on April 12, 2014 [–]

Longer than that. The Jaquard loom was invented in 1801 and the player piano was first demonstrated in 1876.

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