@thomasfuchs I looked up the size of the stack of punch cards needed for some common things. The cards themselves are quite thick, so the volume needed for a rather small amount of data is more than you might think.
A standard container fits a few MB if I remember correctly? Or maybe GB?
@loke @thomasfuchs Punch card containers hold 2000 cards, a card holds effectively 80 bytes or 80 * 12 bits of raw data. That's 160kB per punch card box of effective data.
A punch card takes about 10% of the space (volumetric wise) of a 360k floppy disk though, making it about 450x less information dense. Storing MS Flight Sim on punch cards would therefore take about 20-30 regular sized houses.