27 Apr
2024
27 Apr
'24
11:58 p.m.
On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 6:34 PM Chris Zach <cz(a)alembic.crystel.com> wrote:
Seems the USPS was trial building a system where you
could bring a
letter into a Post Office, they would scan it, then send it to another
post office in MINUTES using a big packet switched network based on
PDP11/23's connected to RM02's (yes, with Quuniverters)....
FedEx did this for a while in '84-'86 and managed to lose $320M in the process.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapmail