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Ironically the Punch cards will probably Outlast literally everything else that's digital.
by allovernow 7y ago
Ironically the Punch cards will probably Outlast literally everything else that's digital.
- WalterBright 7y agoSure, but nobody wants to deal with a terabyte of holes.
- supermatt 7y agoStoring the holes isn’t an issue. They compact infinitely, and don’t degrade under any conditions. It’s reapplying them to some card stock that’s time consuming and error prone.
- WalterBright 7y agoI remember paper tape being dodgy when both punching and reading the holes, meaning that once a certain number of bytes are processed, random bit errors are a certainty.