Vintage technology enthusiast Nino Ivanov has finished his work at bringing back classic storage technology with a modern twist, building a punch card reader which offers remote control of a Common Lisp program running on a cloud computing system.

“I am inviting you to something truly entertaining, the pinnacle mixture of modernity and antiquity,” Ivanov says of his work, “for in today’s experiment will shall be controlling a remote cloud environment through punch cards.”

For the unfamiliar, punch cards are a storage technology which dates back to the work of Basile Bouchon in the 1700s and l