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Re:Smith Chart by kstrauser on Friday November 22, 2019 @06:45PM (#21611286)
> Punch cards are made thoroughly obsolete many orders of magnitude over by modern storage and IO technologies.

You weren't kidding. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card_input/output :

> If all columns of an 80 column card encode information this translates to approximately 2,500 characters per second (CPS).

According to https://www.techradar.com/reviews/samsung-970-evo-plus a 970 EVO Plus SSD is about 1,400,000 times faster. Wow. I would love to go back a few years and blow young me's mind.

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