Steve, would you post that on a webpage somewhere? :-) - jra Steven Bellovin <s...@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
> >On Apr 2, 2013, at 9:16 PM, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: > >> ----- 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. >> >Yes, I know that story. I'm talking what was said to me personally -- >not >hearsay, earwitness evidence. The road mentioned was the Taconic >Parkway, part >of the direct route between where I was working at the time (IBM Watson >Lab #2, >http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/watsonlab.html) and IBM >Yorktown -- >https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=612+West+115th+Street,+New+York,+NY&daddr=ibm+watson+labs,+yorktown,+ny&hl=en&ll=41.027571,-73.66745&spn=0.872312,0.95993&sll=40.807717,-73.965464&sspn=0.013675,0.014999&geocode=FSWtbgIdaGCX-ylpY-dMOfbCiTEUPDIPtH_nMw%3BFfTUdAIdCtuZ-yF0j-k3CpyMSikvG-JPT7jCiTF0j-k3CpyMSg&mra=ls&t=m&z=10 >The context was the speed of an RJE link between the IBM 1130 I was >running >(http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/1130.html) and a mainframe >in Yorktown. (If memory serves, it was a 2400 bps half-duplex link, >probably >via a Bell 201 "data set". I don't remember for sure, though. Anyway, >that >was my first contact with networking, though I worried more about the >host part of it. I did learn bisync rather thoroughly in my next gig, >at City College of New York Computer Center, at that time the central >computing hub for the entire City University system.) > > > --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
