Subj : Miss.RvrDamBreach-Davenpt To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Fri Dec 06 2019 09:45:00 Hi Nancy! NB>>> And similarly for NYC, between Newark, JFK and LaGuardia... :) BM>> Probably just more of the 'hindsight is 20/20': if had known air BM>> travel would become so popular and the planes becoming so large they BM>> (possibily) would have allocated more room for airport expansion: the BM>> landing areas, terminals, and structures around in the landing paths. NB>> There probably wasn't any way of knowing how much things would actually NB>> expand, just like we've discussed about the expressway systems growing NB>> like Topsy and needing room that just isn't there... Or the proverbial NB>> statement by Bill Gates about what capacity a computer should have... BM> All true. Part of the now-outdated thinking is back then didn't have BM> the capabilities nor the considerations. Move stuff across the BM> country? By rail, of course! IIRC the interstate system was more for BM> quick movements of troops and Joe Public got to travel as a side BM> benefit. NB> It wasn't just for troop movement... I think it was somewhat a NB> vision for needing to move large amounts of people/goods in the NB> event of an emergency, but not really thought of as a system for NB> everyday travel until it was well into development.... OK, I don't recall the 'large amounts of people/goods' but makes sense. Fortunately haven't seen that with war but have seen when Mother Nature gets mad. BM> As for Bill Gates' alleged statement, seems like all of the BM> high-ranking people of the companies around then and now heavily into BM> computers made some statement about they (computers) will never be used BM> by the average consumer. NB> Hindsight is so much more accurate than cautious foresight.... ;) NB> But the business computers obviously needed more capability than NB> that original small amount, even from early on.... :) True. As for the capacity of the business machines, probably the thinking was along the lines of mine early: was relatively easy to flip floppies ==> pull out one floppy, insert another. They did hold a lot of data, or at least by the considerations of that time. For fun a quick bit of Googling (to use activate their floppies!) 1 TB = 754297.03126098 floppy disk (3.5", HD) = 2744116.61398 5.25" DD floppies So I'd need close to three million of my old floppies. That's a lot of flipping!! BM>> Anchor a carrier in the Atlantic, run some ferries between the new BM>> floating airport and land.... NB>> Now that's a creative concept.... ;) BM> Once in a while I come up with something good! NB> Not sure how it would be implemented, though.... ;) Plus doesn't seem like it would work all that well for non-coastal sites. ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Show me a magician's notebook and I'll show you a spellbinder. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .