As someone who still has ~80-byte punch cards lying around from his dad’s dissertation, the fact that this new palm-sized external of mine can hold 2Tb of data—or ~250 MILLION punchcards—just…
Blows.
My.
Mind.
Blows.
My.
Mind.
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https://www.newegg.com/assurant-technologies-2tb-cfexpress/p/0UF-068E-00001
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25 billion :)
Later, my first home computer had a staggering 64K.
Now I have a 1 tb micro SD and I look back and it just hits me
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You could potentially need as many as 10,000 floppy disks per terabyte.
I could identify IntegerBasic vs ApplesoftBasic vs Binary just by the first sounds after the attention tone.
Good times
Now back to playing Questron II. Need to get across the water somehow . . .
Useless administrivia from his last job? Codes for an unknown life insurance policy? Long-lost priceless family photos?
No idea.
I was an 11 year old teenager with a Nintendo DS who just discovered flash cards.
I had a 2GB MicroSD card lying next to my thumb, it being the size of my thumb nail and only as thick as my homework.
It had 15 games on it.
Good times.
The chads from the punch cards were great fun, put in a big envelope, put the open end under a dorm door and stomp on it. Run.
Or dump down the defrost vents of someone's car...
::Will-Poulter-Kenny-face::
I have a virgin punch card around somewhere.
I suspect that palm drive was <$100 for ~370,000% more capacity. Not too shabby!
80 bytes/card times 250 million cards comes to 20 billion bytes— less that 20GB. That's only about 7% of 2Tb (terabits) and less than 1% of 2TB (terabytes)
If my math is correct, 25 billion "IBM" cards could cover about 150 square miles— or half the land of the five boroughs of NYC