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Why are punch card readers no longer in use?
- aurizon 5y agoLOL, crunch for me the size of a 1 Tb stack of cards at a density of 80 characters per card?? How many trees needed? How many forests for 100Tb?
- tamaharbor 5y agoDon’t get them mixed up!
- LinuxBender 5y agoIf one were to bring back punch cards that are somehow updated or more advanced to hold more data then please for the love of sanity first make a machine that you can drop a massive stack of them into that will sort them. Or make it so that the reader can read them out of order and add parity data so you can lose a few cards or have a few coffee soaked unreadable cards. something along the lines of par2 [1] [1] - https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline