Subj : Re: Computers
To   : Spectre
From : Bob Worm
Date : Sun Jul 21 2024 13:25:15

  Re: Re: Computers
  By: Spectre to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Jul 21 2024 12:33:00

Hi, Spec.

 > The local uni here had a public room, full of XTs in use as terminals.  Only
 > two of them had 3.5" floppies, so it was a bit of a wrestle to get  one of
 > those.  But I ftp'd a bit of stuff onto floppies and cycled home on the
 > deadly treadly to either bop it on the BBS or try out some fangled utility
 > we didn't have any equivalent for.

This is very reminiscent of my university experience but presumably a few years apart.. 33k(ish) dial up at home or 10M Internet in the university a few miles away.

In one of our courses they taught us about the "truck full of tapes" calculation where, if an organisation needed to send a lot of data cross country, there came a crossover point where it was faster to send a truck full of tapes by road than waiting for it to transfer via E1 / T1 connection. I had my own version of that where anything over about 20M warranted a trip into uni with a CD-RW or a zip disk.

BobW
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