I just did the volume computation but don't have scales here to weigh my card boxes (yes, I still have a few since they are great for grocery lists). Sorry to not be able to provide that bit of trivia.

Peter

According to Gilles Detillieux:

According to Glen Ditchfield:

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How big would a gigabyte of punched cards be?

Well, 2^30/80 is 13,421,773 cards. Anyone remember how many cards fit in one of those big flat boxes they came in? If it was 5000, it would take 2,685 of these boxes to store a gig. What weight and volume that would occupy, I couldn't say at this point. Trouble with us old timers is our memory starts to fail. :-P Anyone still have one of those big flat boxes of cards?

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