Thread: Conduction, Radiation, and Convection? Is that all there is?
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Default Conduction, Radiation, and Convection? Is that all there is?
On Mon, 21 Aug 06 09:11:39 GMT, wrote:

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.

Er... yes. I sort of assumed that the 747 "full" was mere hyperbole
and ignored it!

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