Re: [TCLUG:15037] Station Wagon Full of Tapes

[Chris McKinley <lamfada@lugh.net>]

Anyway, the issue there is not so much bandwidth as latency ...

-Chris

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Philip C Mendelsohn wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com wrote:
> 
> > I see on the list this:
> > 
> > "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes
> >   hurtling down the highway." -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum - Computer Networks
> > 
> > 
> > However, in fortune, it's read as this:
> > 
> > Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes.
> >                 -- Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, UTCS
> > 
> > Anybody know which one is the correct version?
> > 
> > Nick Reinking
> 
> Neither!  I'm sure there's 18M versions of it.  I know it as "the
> bandwidth of magtape and a pickup truck."  (c. 1973, DEC, Maynard MA)