On 12/18/2012 03:21 AM, Tim wrote:
On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 16:28 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
Hey, you kids... Get off my lawn.
Yes, we had Google back then. See: http://www.masswerk.at/google60/
I've still got a few paper cards floating around. I don't have the
punch cards, though, but the type where you colour in the bubbles with a
lead pencil, rather than punch them out. I never found out if they had
their own something-card name.
As media goes, cards will have the longest lifespan, and still be
perfectly readable even if the original reader hardware dies. All you'd
need to do is write a program for an ordinary optical scanner. Unlike
being faced with having to build hardware to read a magnetic disc or
tape, or optical disc, when someone need to read some archival data in
the future on unsupported media.
I can only hope that it never comes down to that.....imagine having to
read some database-sized info with nothing but those cards?.....yipe!
EGO II
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