Fun fact I found in a game…
Chip Defense (A tower defense game with a microprocessor theme)
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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.
Punch card stock makes amazing paper airplanes, both individually and laminated into larger stock.
Makes sense. I’m a librarian and we still use cards from the old card catalog for notes.
256GB? that’s hitting on the low side
You can’t take notes on a memory card? Skill issue
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
Punch cards are the Chads!
(Are you old enough to get this joke?)
unless you made a lace card
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.
MicroSD cards also don’t look nearly as badass if woven into a skirt.
A full suit of SDcale mail armour, however…
Is the 80-character width of early terminals related to the 80-byte capacity of punch cards?
It absolutely is. A punch card represents a line of text, mostly in a programming language.
A tower defense game with a microprocessor theme
Does anyone remember that club penguin tower defence game where you defend against computer viruses?
Wasn’t it kill?
