They say, however, that DNA data-holding strategies proposed in the past still offer some advantages—such as roughly 12 to 50 times greater storage density than the punch-card technique.

And probably few now remember that Fortran’s strange columnar code structure came, in part, from punch card use. Check out the images in the gallery: some of them will amuse you, some may amaze.

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A punch card can hold about 80 characters, and a box of cards holds 2000 cards. 15 exabytes of punch cards would be enough to cover my home region, New England, to a depth of about 4.5 kilometers.

(1) See loyalty punch card. (2) An early storage medium made of thin cardboard stock that held data as patterns of punched holes. Also called "punched" cards, each of the 80 or 96 columns held one ...

For a time, punch cards were a dominating force in humanity’s dataome.That’s what I’ve come to call the mass of data humanity creates and carries, other than our genes—everything from the ...

Punch cards were a standard form of program and data storage for decades, but you’d never know it by looking around today. Card punches and even readers are becoming rare and expensive. Somet… ...