----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steven Bellovin" <s...@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 -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274
