• CountVon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 months ago

    One of my grandfathers worked for a telephone company before he passed. That man was an absolute pack rat, he wouldn’t throw anything away. So naturally he had boxes and boxes of punch cards in this basement. I guess they were being thrown out when his employer upgraded to machines that didn’t need punch cards, so he snagged those to use as note paper. I will say, they were great for taking notes. Nice sturdy card stock, and the perfect dimensions for making a shopping list or the like.

    • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Makes sense. I’m a librarian and we still use cards from the old card catalog for notes.

  • flora_explora@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    Let’s say that we have a more recent micro SD card of 1 TB. So to contain the same information in a punch card (with a byte density of 80 byte/156 cm² = 0.512 byte/cm²), we would need a card of 512,820,512,820 cm². If I’m not mistaken that would be a punch card the size of 51 km²!! This is wild :O

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      It is insanely interesting to me whenever I come across details in old file formats that were included specifically to work around hardware limitations. The wide knowledge required to be aware of all these wild factors is amazing.

      As you can tell, I’m fun at parties.

  • rbits@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    A tower defense game with a microprocessor theme

    Does anyone remember that club penguin tower defence game where you defend against computer viruses?