On Tue, 1 Dec 2015 14:41:58 -0600, Barry Merrill wrote:
>I think a box of 2000 IBM cards is on the order of 6 pounds,
>so a TON of JCL cards would be 333 boxes, or about 666,666
>card images.
>
>But, the useful weight is zero, since we only use the holes.
>
But as XKCD once said, "Four boxes of punch cards ought to be enough for
anyone."
https://what-if.xkcd.com/63/
My memory of carrying around file trays (3, IIRC, when I was younger) is "more".
A little Googling says 2.42 g/card. WAG, I think.
But you could keep it on micro SD cards.
-- gil
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