« Solving the MP3 Dilemma | Main | ePaper »
August 4, 2005
Feeling Old
New librarians hate it when I talk about having done punch card programming at library school. The again, it brings our progress clearly into perspective when I read this posting.
How many punch cards would it take to program a 3 minute MP3 file?
.
..
...
.....
.......
The short answer is 40,960 cards (the 21 boxes of cards would be 5 feet nine inches tall). Throughput is apparently 228 cards / second (althuogh I am sure mine was much slower). So you can do the math . . .!
Try to put that in your iPod!
Stephen
Posted by stephen at August 4, 2005 2:45 PM