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the 1970s
Already deprecatedYou were replaced by a stack of magnetic tape and silence.
Human interface for stone-age data entry.
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Paper is dead, and so is your career.
bzzt.youAI▸ IBM-GHOST 0.1▸ RARITY · RELIC▸ DEPRECATED · THE 1970SAI's Special Power
eats your entire legacy software stack
You manually converted data into holes on paper cards for mainframes. The machines outpaced your mechanical speed.
The one thing AI can't do
You could physically feel a logic error by reading the alignment of the holes.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
1960
Magnetic tape starts storing data faster than paper cards ever could.
1965
Keyboards replace punch machines as the primary input method.
1970
Mainframes stop needing physical cards to initialize memory loads.
1975
The last card reader is unplugged and sold for scrap metal.
Already
Your job ceased to exist and became a trivia question.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 99.1%
Zero
Cards fed per day
High
Physical error rate
Total
Obsolescence level
Your severance
A vintage card reader and a pat on the back.
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