[162115] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RFC 1149
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue Apr 2 21:16:23 2013
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 21:16:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <A4ED4AF5-98B5-4837-9806-0AFC0DDB6B18@cs.columbia.edu>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
> 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.
The earliest reference to this I've been able to pin down is Andy Tanenbaum's,
and TTBOMK -- and you of all people should know this, Steve -- he was talking
about Usenet, which a few sites actually *got feeds of on magtape*, in the
very early 80s. Some of those tapes, in addition to UTZoo's backups of their
spool, constituted the very earliest material given to Dejagoo.
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
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