Fun fact I found in a game…
Chip Defense (A tower defense game with a microprocessor theme)
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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.
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.
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.
