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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by perishthethought@lemm.ee to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
 

Fun fact I found in a game...

Chip Defense (A tower defense game with a microprocessor theme)

https://f-droid.org/packages/de.chadenas.cpudefense/

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[โ€“] aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is the 80-character width of early terminals related to the 80-byte capacity of punch cards?

[โ€“] Ing0R@feddit.de 0 points 3 months ago

It absolutely is. A punch card represents a line of text, mostly in a programming language.