Subj : Re: Computers
To   : Bob Worm
From : Spectre
Date : Mon Jul 22 2024 10:41:00

 BW> In one of our courses they taught us about the "truck full of tapes"

Massive bandwidth, really bad latency though :)

 BW> connection. I had my own version of that where anything over about 20M
 BW> warranted a trip into uni with a CD-RW or a zip disk.

You had it a bit better than I did... we didn't have any fancy geegaws for
data storage, just the floppies...  I wasn't to flash at tracking stuff down
back then either... Didn't really know where the resources were unless you
crawled simtel or some such.

Spec


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