A drop box loom has a vertical rack of four boxes on each side of the loom to hold the shuttles. When a weft pick is inserted there is a choice of empty boxes to receive the shuttle. Choosing the ...

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of the ...