Fast Fact: Three-Minute MP3 Would Consume 40,000 Punch Cards

I want to see the king nerd who figured this one out. But basically, if you stored a standard 3-minute MP3 file on old-fashioned 60s-era PUNCH CARDS, you’d need 40,960 cards, which would file 21 boxes stacked 5 feet, 9-inches high.

“Assuming a non-Hollerith encoding with eight bits per column, and an MP3 file encoded at […]

Originally posted by Alice from Real Tech News – Independent Tech