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If you are interested in the history of looms and computing technology, a visit to the Science Museum in London, UK is worth it. From Babbage's Difference engine, atomic clocks, jacquard looms, Cray mainframes and other high-tech artifacts will take you back a step in time.
Old Computers made with tubes and wires.
Cray mainframe computer In use until the early 1990's, Though not very clear in the photo - the blue in the centre is a huge mass of wires. Imagine when one of those shorts out!