What 5 Megabytes of Computer Data Looked Like in 1966 ~ Vintage Everyday
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The average modern website takes more than this per page to display its content.. it's absurd.
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It still looks like that but it did then, too.
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With that even less you could run the internet
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She looks like she KNOWS you're thinking of taking one single punchcard from the middle of the pile, thus rendering the whole thing useless.
And she's not having your shit.
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I'm over here managing a local back up of about half a TB of pics and videos. Also - I moved from Google Photos to Ente. So much data and I know people out there have way more than I do. Crazy to think about.
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She looks like she KNOWS you're thinking of taking one single punchcard from the middle of the pile, thus rendering the whole thing useless.
And she's not having your shit.
Yes, she certainly has the look of someone who knows what a huge amount of work these piles of cards represent. There would have been no turbulent kids running around these.
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Yes, she certainly has the look of someone who knows what a huge amount of work these piles of cards represent. There would have been no turbulent kids running around these.
Look at those forearms. Absolutely she knows how much work this is. Also absolutely she numbered them all in pencil.
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She looks like she KNOWS you're thinking of taking one single punchcard from the middle of the pile, thus rendering the whole thing useless.
And she's not having your shit.
She lives in the Mary Poppins house and has to stabilize her stack of cards like this every time the neighbour fires the canon.
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Seems about right. One card had 80 columns, a byte for each one, so 5,000,000 bytes divided by 80 would be 62,500 cards.
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It still looks like that but it did then, too.
What would be truly amazing would be a 5MB variant of this picture so no matter what it always looks like 5MB
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She looks like she KNOWS you're thinking of taking one single punchcard from the middle of the pile, thus rendering the whole thing useless.
And she's not having your shit.
one can number them with a pen, and then find the missing one or guess what was there
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The average modern website takes more than this per page to display its content.. it's absurd.
And most can be replaced with nothing with no loss in value
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With all the onlookers.
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Is the nice lady still inside?
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The average modern website takes more than this per page to display its content.. it's absurd.
The average modern website steals more personal data than this from you when you visit
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one can number them with a pen, and then find the missing one or guess what was there
Ooohh, did they have any redundancy in them?
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Ooohh, did they have any redundancy in them?
Yes, it's called human brain. If it makes sense that a missing punch card would contain jump to address from some register, then make another one such.
I'm joking.