
standards, but it was advanced for its day.
Commercial software came on the market in
the late 1980s that you can use with your knitting
machine connected to your computer. Updated
versions of DesignaKnit by Soft Byte (softbyte.
co.uk) and Garment Designer by Cochenille
(cochenille.com) are still available today.
Note that electronic refers to how the
patterning is done. The actual knitting is still a
human-operated process: you push the carriage
back and forth manually.
FLOPPY PORT HACK: PYTHON
CODE, THEN IMG2TRACK
In the early 2000s, some knitters came together
in a Yahoo group to discuss how to reverse
engineer the internal file format ...