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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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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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 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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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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one can number them with a pen, and then find the missing one or guess what was there
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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 steals more personal data than this from you when you visit
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Ooohh, did they have any redundancy in them?
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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.
