In article ,
Ben Newsam wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:33:38 -0400, krw wrote:

Think about the bandwidth of a 747 full of magtapes! ;-)

AIUI, that is exactly the mechanism used to propagate usenet posts
across the Atlantic in the early days of Demon Internet.

Nah. It would take about 1 magtape to transport the bits.
There were only about hundred monkeys typing at newsgroups
while they were developing and testing to see which methods
worked best.

/BAH


/BAH