3 Apr
2013
3 Apr
'13
2:24 a.m.
On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:00:35 -0400, "Mike." said:
Oddly, prehaps, those punchcards on the stagecoaches probably will outlast any magnetic media we have at our disposal today....
Here's a picture of an estimated 4.3G of data on punch cards: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_card_storage.NARA.jpg 20 rows of pallets, each row is 15 pallets, stacked 2 high, 45 boxes of 2,000 to the pallet. One has to wonder if those pallets are still there....