On Nov 13, 2007 1:50 PM, <<a href="mailto:murraymckee@wellsfargo.com">murraymckee@wellsfargo.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Back when I was a comp sci major almost 30 years ago at ISU we had a<br>problem to solve in one of the classes I was taking. At what distance<br>did a 1200 baud modem ( a high speed modem back when we used punch cards<br>
) become faster than a single bicycle messenger with a 1600 bpi 9 track<br>reel tape over his arm.<br><br>We had to calculate the actual through put of the modem and how much<br>data could fit on a tape. Tape density, length of tape, inter record
<br>gaps, etc.<br></blockquote></div><br>Interesting story, because I once installed slackware this way. I only owned about 7 floppy disks so I had to ride my bike back and forth from my house off-campus to the computer lab at Durham (ISU) in order to create the next few disks.
<br><br>Boy I wish I had that much spare time still.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode