{"id":22745,"date":"2019-12-12T10:47:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=22745"},"modified":"2019-12-12T10:47:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:47:07","slug":"sixty-five-years-of-progress-in-miniaturization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2019\/12\/12\/sixty-five-years-of-progress-in-miniaturization\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixty-five years of progress in miniaturization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22746\" src=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.net\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/4.5MBofdata-62500cards-1955.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/4.5MBofdata-62500cards-1955.jpg 400w, https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/4.5MBofdata-62500cards-1955-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That stack of 62,500 punchcards represents 4.5 MB of data circa 1955. I remember my dad doing his CS homework\/projects on those things in the early Seventies! Today, my current iPhone Xs holds over 14,000 times that much information and it&#8217;s the size of a pocket calculator, keeping up those Seventies&#8217; references. I was going to say a cigarette pack but I don&#8217;t smoke and I think those are shorter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All those punchcards! Must have been hell keep them all in order and moving them about or worse, imagine a bug hunt with them!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That stack of 62,500 punchcards represents 4.5 MB of data circa 1955. I remember my dad doing his CS homework\/projects on those things in the early Seventies! Today, my current iPhone Xs holds over 14,000 times that much information and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2019\/12\/12\/sixty-five-years-of-progress-in-miniaturization\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,44],"tags":[618,300],"class_list":["post-22745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-applecomputertech","category-sci-tech","tag-computers","tag-fifties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22747,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22745\/revisions\/22747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}