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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 22:27:19 -0800
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From: Paul Czyzewski <paulc@best.com>
Subject: Re: CM: Station wagon full of tapes.
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As best I can remember, no one came up with this (original?) source for the "station wagon full of tapes" example when it was previously discussed. In Computer Networks, second edition ('88), by Andrew Tanenbaum, section 2.2.1, "Magnetic Media", has a paragraph starting "A simple calculation makes this point clear," which gives the station wagon example with no attribution to any earlier source. It ends with
"The moral of the story is: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
I presume this is also in the first edition. Does this look like it would be early enough to be the source for this concept?
Paul Czyzewski
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From: Paul Czyzewski <paulc@best.com>
Subject: Re: CM: Station wagon full of tapes.
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
As best I can remember, no one came up with this (original?) source for the "station wagon full of tapes" example when it was previously discussed. In Computer Networks, second edition ('88), by Andrew Tanenbaum, section 2.2.1, "Magnetic Media", has a paragraph starting "A simple calculation makes this point clear," which gives the station wagon example with no attribution to any earlier source. It ends with
"The moral of the story is: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
I presume this is also in the first edition. Does this look like it would be early enough to be the source for this concept?
Paul Czyzewski
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