never had any dealings with punch card computers, But when I first got started (trash 80) as in trs 80 from radio shack(?) it belonged to a friend that used it to keep track of all his movies (he had well over 1000). MY first computer was a Franklin (apple clone) that used the 5 1/4 floppies and then an apple 3C and you had to turn over the boot up disk to get it to run. Then came 3.5 floppies and HO BOY! talk about holding a lot of data... Oh and I did the Bulletin Board thing with the phone cradle as well. Thank goodness things have changed!