Reminds me of a box of nanoseconds that the company I work for bought,
containing long spools of fiber to test (or more likely prove that it
won't work?) various km distances between sysplexed mainframes.
http://www.mildredbrennan.com/mvs/fiber_spools.png
On 6/13/2020 4:34 PM, Mark S Waterbury wrote:
At that time, she always carried with her a small bundle of "bell wire" all cut to a lengh of just under 12 inches, or the distance an electrical signal would travel over copper wire in one nanosecond. As she met each new person, she would hand you one of these pieces of wire and say, "That's a nanosecond!" with some delight. :-)
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