[162110] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RFC 1149
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike.)
Tue Apr 2 19:00:49 2013
In-Reply-To: <A4ED4AF5-98B5-4837-9806-0AFC0DDB6B18@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:00:35 -0400
From: "Mike." <the.lists@mgm51.com>
To: "'NANOG'" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 4/2/2013 at 6:44 PM Steven Bellovin wrote:
|DLT? I first heard it as a station wagon full of (9-track, 1600 bpi,
|that having been the state of the art) mag tapes on the Taconic
Parkway,
|circa 1970. I suspect, though, that Herman Hollerith expressed the
idea
|about a stage coach full of punchcards, back in the 1880s.
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Oddly, prehaps, those punchcards on the stagecoaches probably will
outlast any magnetic media we have at our disposal today....
