You can draw a straight line from player piano rolls to punch cards and the first computer programs.

您可以从演奏钢琴卷轴到打孔卡和第一个计算机程序绘制一条直线。

What you're listening to now is a special kind of player piano roll that could capture all the subtleties of human performance.

您现在听到的是一种特殊的钢琴卷帘，可以捕捉人类演奏的所有微妙之处。

Other early precedents for today's smorgasbord of borrowable objects include framed paintings (1904 in Newark, New Jersey), piano rolls (1907 in Evanston, Illinois), and stereoscopes (1909 in Portland, Oregon).

其他早期的可借阅物品先例还包括裱好的油画(1904年，产自新泽西州的纽瓦克)、钢琴卷(1907年，产自伊利诺伊州的埃文斯顿)和立体镜(1909年，产自俄勒冈州的波特兰市)。