At 7:29 AM -0800 2/7/02, Philip P. Obbard wrote:
Oh yeah, and I also really liked it when early personal computers used audiotapes instead of floppy disks and CD-ROMs for data storage. ... I would use one all the time, except then Icouldn't write to this list to badmouth digital technology.
Going _way_ off-topic here, I have to note that punchcards were more human and accessible than tape (as one could just look at them and see the data, sort of like vinyl records), and vacuum tube computers were a lot warmer than solid-state. As for posting to the list, you *did* know that some people have done TCP/IP over carrier pigeon, right? http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/
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