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ElectricMoose ,

You also can’t make star ships out of an sdcard

Meowie_Gamer ,
@Meowie_Gamer@lemmy.world avatar

That’s a lot of data!

shotgun_crab ,

You can’t take notes on a memory card? Skill issue

flora_explora ,

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

Hugh_Jeggs ,

For the Americans, this is more than one football field and less than Texas

tetris11 ,
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

For the entomologists, this is approximately 2.6 trillion ants

hglman ,

How many peach trees could you plant on 51km^2^

abclop99 ,

At least 2

rbits ,

A tower defense game with a microprocessor theme

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

Louisoix ,

Wasn’t it kill?

xmunk ,

MicroSD cards also don’t look nearly as badass if woven into a skirt.

subignition ,
@subignition@fedia.io avatar

A full suit of SDcale mail armour, however...

xmunk ,

Honestly, yea… badass.

Mouselemming ,

Punch cards are the Chads!

(Are you old enough to get this joke?)

v_krishna ,
@v_krishna@lemmy.ml avatar

Can you explain more? Don’t leave me hanging…

pingveno ,

I can, but the history is a little gorey.

grysbok ,
@grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Come on, I’m counting on you!

qjkxbmwvz ,

Please be direct and stop beating around the Bush.

Zagorath ,
@Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

The quality of this thread is really reaching a nader.

dogsoahC ,

I got it, but mostly thanks to watching HIMYM.

azulavoir ,

I get it but only because of balatro

schnurrito ,

Future archeologists be like we keep finding microSD cards from the early 21st century and have to wade through all that data to figure out anything about that period, from earlier periods we only have paper records.

subignition ,
@subignition@fedia.io avatar

there are 1 TB microsdxc now, so that'd be 1.2 trillion to one

LordKitsuna ,

I can however, store my entire life history of notes and shopping lists inside the sd card

aseriesoftubes ,

Is the 80-character width of early terminals related to the 80-byte capacity of punch cards?

PlexSheep ,

Good question, I assume not though

Ing0R ,

It absolutely is. A punch card represents a line of text, mostly in a programming language.

tetris11 ,
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

without proof, we’re up voting you because we want it to be true

Ing0R ,

In the 90s my dad showed me his stack of IBM compatible 12 bit per column, 80 column card from his time working at the university physics department’s computer in the 70s. He had no access anymore to card readers and just kept the cards for sentimental value.

Most cards contain FORTRAN programs for the TR440 computer made by Telefunken.

Sorry, I have no further proof. :)

tetris11 ,
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

thanks for following up!

Crow ,

You can, if you write really small

electricprism ,

This could easily be a quote by GlaDOS the way it reads.

perishthethought OP ,

You Monster

xmunk ,

“To contrast, the human brain apparently can’t remember a simple piece of information like not getting attached to their companion cube. I think we know who would be better at a party, the punchcard.”

CountVon ,
@CountVon@sh.itjust.works avatar

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.

perishthethought OP ,

Maybe he was born during the Depression or soon after

grysbok ,
@grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

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

xmunk ,

My dad converted old assembly programs into Cobol for spending money in uni - his textbooks were full of cast offs.

mercano ,
@mercano@lemmy.world avatar

We used unused punchcards to make flashcards in elementary school in the late 80’s / early 90’s. I guess the county bought a bunch and had to find another use.

And now I realize the primary definition of flashcard has changed since then, from study aid to digital storage.

xenspidey ,

256GB? that’s hitting on the low side

CanadaPlus ,

TBF they also had things like tapes pretty early on, and delay lines nearly since the start. The best comparison for punch cards would be text on a screen, because they were designed for the purpose of human interaction.

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