That’s incredible in a way. Punch cards…you coldly fill a shoebox with them and store only a bit of data. And god help you if you spilled them and got them mixed up!
yeah I heard stories at UK of computer programming geeks having a stack of maybe 50-100 punch cards ordered in compile sequence, and some asshat football player or other frat boy azz coming through the room and knocking the stack out of geeks hand