Fun fact I found in a game…
Chip Defense (A tower defense game with a microprocessor theme)
256GB? that’s hitting on the low side
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.
Makes sense. I’m a librarian and we still use cards from the old card catalog for notes.
Punch card stock makes amazing paper airplanes, both individually and laminated into larger stock.
You can’t take notes on a memory card? Skill issue
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.