Card Readers
I just had a thought, as I was transferring files around on SD and CF cards, that the meaning of the term Card Reader has changed completely, but is still within IT.
This is my Card Reader (actually its Jane's)
And this is what we used to call a Card Reader (an IBM 2501) which read punched cards:
This is my Card Reader (actually its Jane's)
And this is what we used to call a Card Reader (an IBM 2501) which read punched cards:
posted by Stuart at
21:41
3 Comments:
Blast from the past there! I'd never made that connection before.
By
janerc, at 10 April, 2006 22:05
The problem with the new cards is that it doesn't matter what capacity you buy, they're still not big enough to write a shopping list on!
By
Mike, at 10 April, 2006 23:24
When you think, a punched card had 100 positions, representing 100 bytes, that's about ten written words. But they were great for writing shopping lists on the back of. I wish I still had some left.
By
Stuart, at 10 April, 2006 23:54
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