Simple Question Re: FedUp

[Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.]

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