MEME THREAD 2.0 - NO POLITICS OR ANYTHING YOU WOULDNT WANT YOUNG KIDS TO SEE [READ THE WARNING]

[JRV1631]

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[JRV1631]

R.I.P.

 

[Bikeman315]

A little hint if it's needed, but it really shouldn't be. All in all you're....

 

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[CrazyHippie]

A little hint if it's needed, but it really shouldn't be. All in all you're....

In all my years of judging, I have never seen before, someone more deserving the full penalty of law.

 

[Paddles]

In all my years of judging, I have never seen before, someone more deserving the full penalty of law.

No need for the jury to retire

 

[Balr14]

I used to code programs in punched cards.

 

[Balr14]

Didn't take that long to load.

My first mainframe was an IBM 7040 (serial #2). Had a tiny HD. A programmer needed more space and noticed a system file he didn't recognize on the drive the size he needed. So he redirected the file to the card punch and used the space for his purpose. Started the program and no complaints so left for the weekend hoping the program would be done by Monday.

When he returned Monday the program was paused waiting for cards to be loaded. Problem was we only had about that many cards in stock and the program had already used them all. Turns out the file he redirected was was a snapshot file. If the computer crashed or program failed, it could be restarted from the snapshot. Don't recall how many snapshots had been punched before they ran out.

Damn, you must be as old as I am (82)!

 

[Vlad Soare]

In their defence, they were the most resilient recording medium ever made. Everything else - diskettes, tapes, hard disks, SSD drives, memory cards, rewritable optical discs, you name it - has a limited life and can fail at any time without prior notice. Only pressed CDs/DVDs/BDs (I mean pre-recorded, not user-recordable or rewritable) come close, but even they can have issues if they are badly made (remember the disc rot problem with some of the early samples) or exposed to UV. Punched cards are eternal.
Too bad their storage capacity is so low, otherwise I'd love to have all my data stored on them, rather than on HDDs that may or may not work the next time I need them.

 

[Wishbone]

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