Talk:Audiograph Player/@comment-29466044-20161009021620/@comment-26536672-20161009052445

Punch cards are, both in Dishonored and in real life, simply an early method of manually recording information that has been digitized. It works in roughly the same manner that all digital recording media do today, by way of translating analogue  inputs into digital outputs and physically storing those bits in some sort of storage.

That being said, it is quite odd that it would be punched cards. I would like to say that digitization technology is not nearly advanced enough in Dishonored to warrant its use over analogue methods, like vinyl records, but given the existence of Watch Towers and Clockwork Soldiers... it is quite evident they possess information processing technology far in advance of their Victorian aesthetic. :P