19 Feb
2014
19 Feb
'14
9:49 a.m.
From: Chuck Guzis
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 4:04 PM
On 02/18/2014 03:46 PM, Jonathan Katz wrote:
> Someone once told me "never underestimate the
bandwidth contained
> within a station wagon crammed full of DLT tapes."
That oft-repeated chestnut is attributed to Andy
Tannenbaum and
pre-dates DLT, I think.
I don't know if it originated with Tannenbaum,
however.
That page says _Computer Networks_, 4th ed. The first edition was in 1981 or
so, and may have included the same proverb.
However, I heard this in the 1970s in the context of transferring data between
IBM 370 architecture data centers (and it was "mag tapes" in that context).
Just another folkloric data point.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/