A modest technological proposal in praise of imperialism

Having seen the news this morning concerning the failure to kill off imperial measurements I hereby propose an Imperial measurement for data.

No longer will we be under the sway of these new-fangled kilo, mega, giga and terabytes. Instead we shall refer to our technological achievements by the old-fashioned imperial measure - the inch, foot and yard. How will we measure data in yards, you ask? Simple - we will return to the ancient days of computing and revive the first portable standard for data transport - the punch card!

By stacking an imperial standard punch card of data on top of its noble brethren one will construct a stack. Said stack's height can then be measured, producing a result both memorable and patriotic. No longer will a coder be forced to report their output in foreign units - they will be able to report exactly how many feet of code they have produced! I feel
sure that within the month computer users acros the nation will be proudly reporting how many miles their hard drives can contain, yards of bandwidth they have used and leagues of porn they have downloaded.

(with thanks to octopoid_horror, who said we needed a new measurement to replace the kilobyte)