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
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.
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
For the Americans, this is more than one football field and less than Texas
For the entomologists, this is approximately 2.6 trillion ants
How many peach trees could you plant on 51km2
At least 2
This could easily be a quote by GlaDOS the way it reads.
You Monster
unless you made a lace card
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.
there are 1 TB microsdxc now, so that’d be 1.2 trillion to one
You can, if you write really small
A tower defense game with a microprocessor theme
Does anyone remember that club penguin tower defence game where you defend against computer viruses?
Wasn’t it kill?