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by carboncopy
3769 days ago
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The overlap between punch cards and other formats was decades. "During the 1960s, the punched card was gradually replaced as the primary means for data storage by magnetic tape, as better, more capable computers became available. ... [P]unched cards were still commonly used for data entry and programming until the mid-1980s when the combination of lower cost magnetic disk storage ... made punched cards obsolete ..."[1] Yes, I listed wikipedia as a primary source, deal with it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card |
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