On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:36:34 -0400 Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu> wrote:
William Allen Simpson wrote:
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/...
Update needed for RFC 1149 (1 April 1990), A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
Truly practical with today's storage media... if the Wiki story is correct, it was a 4Gb memory stick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet under "Usage Examples"). There was the old "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. —Tanenbaum, Andrew S." but then a pigeon would have trouble hauling 9-track tapes :-)
I don't know when Andy Tanenbaum said it, but I first heard it in 1969, referring to the Taconic Parkway in New York.... --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb