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    Punch card  
          
      
          
      
      
   
  
                  
                            
              
  
                  
                            
              
  
    
        literally a stiff piece of paper with holes punched in it, these legacy storage devices could only record 80 bytes of data each        
          
      
          
      
      
    
  
      My grandfather told me when he studied computer science they used punch cards to store programs.