RFC 1149

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Wed Apr 3 06:24:36 UTC 2013


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....


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