On 09/11/2009 06:36 AM, Jeff Kell wrote:
William Allen Simpson wrote:
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8248056.stm?ad=1
Update needed for RFC 1149 (1 April 1990),
A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
Truly practical with today's storage media... if the Wiki story is
correct, it was a 4Gb memory stick
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet under "Usage Examples"). There
was the old "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full
of tapes hurtling down the highway. —Tanenbaum, Andrew S." but then a
pigeon would have trouble hauling 9-track tapes :-)
Heck, your average sheet of paper with your average laser printer is
about 5Mb. And that's random access, not some crufty sequential seeking
tape :)
Mike
