Connections: How Punch Cards Led to Modern Computing

HN commenters strongly recommend it for its account of how the Jacquard loom and punch cards led to computers.

Episode 4 of James Burke's Connections series, tracing how commercialism, climate change and the Black Death shaped the move to the Renaissance. It follows threads through waterpower, the printing press, the Jacquard loom and the Hollerith punch card toward modern computing.