If everyone had to rely on flash memory—the data-storage system used in memory cards and thumb drives—the amount of information that the world is estimated to produce by 2040 would exceed the planet’s ...

(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 ...

Over at Royal Pingdom there’s a fascinating little picture history of computer storage from the year dot nearly up to the present day. Who knew that hard disks were once the size of a small car? Not ...

Imagine if all the world’s data was still stored on punch cards: we’d be drowning in cardboard. But just how much exactly? Fortunately, XKCD’s Randall Munroe has taken a stab at working that out. He ...

Sometimes you just have parts lying around and want to make something out of them. [Tymkrs] had a robot paper cutter, so naturally they made punch cards. But then, of course, they needed a punch card ...

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Punch card data input is so 1890 US Census, right? Maybe not, if your goal is to educate kids about binary numbers and how they can encode characters. In which case, this paper clip and metal tape ...