Simple Question Re: FedUp

[Tim]

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.

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