Not a newb

My first domestic net connection was uucp - twice a day, automatic.
Luxury back then!

Cheers
Goaty

 

In aus.motorcycles on 28 Jun 2004 12:05:12 +1000

The late 80s.

Usenet was flown over to Oz on tape because the teeny tiny pipe wasn't
enough.

It was flowing over the pipe when I first got onto usenet, a 2MB pipe.
Which worked cos it was only news, mail, and ftp. Although if you
wanted something big on ftp you used one of the ftp->mail gateways
to split the file up and mail it to you.

For software updates, magtapes was the way to go.


Zebee

 

Yeah, OK, I heard about that. Still low latency on your own NNTP server.
I was thinking of the mainframe days, JES2 and its friends did most of
the work then.

Ditto I think. People were always whinging about bandwidth then; only
dialup users do that now :-# 56K? Looxury!

This worked well for a long time, until IBM realised it wasn't getting
its tapes back

Gary

--
Wealth without Work
Pleasure without Conscience
Science without Humanity
Knowledge without Character
Politics without Principle
Commerce without Morality
Worship without Sacrifice

The Seven Deadly Sins of M.K. Gandhi

 

In aus.motorcycles on 30 Jun 2004 18:16:11 +1000

DG used to send us updates on tape.

I'd leave them sitting for a couple of weeks, till the first patch tape
came in, and sometimes till the 2nd one came in.

Usually they were a bit small to use for backups though.

Zebee
- remembering 6 hour Saturdays at one magtape per half hour to back up
the *huge* 500mb disk... And restores took twice as long, nice little
earner at double time!

 

Redirect the tape to /dev/null - makes the backup much quicker ...[1]

Cheers
Goaty
1. Long live Signetics write only memory!