On 3/14/2023 3:07 PM, David Spiegel wrote:
I went over to the 2nd in command VM guy and asked why I would have to wait a week for delivery of a tape when it could he delivered electronically in under an hour. He had this irrational xenophobia against it and since he was the gatekeeper, his manager wouldn't budge either. I asked him to explain this M'shugaas (Yiddish for insanity) and he retorted: "Ahh ... you do not understand banking. How do you know that IBM will not flip a bit when the data is compressed/uncompressed?" I retorted: "Even if you get a tape, how do you know the the object code is intact?" He had no answer for this.
Both transfer mechanisms were protected by CRC (cyclic redundancy checking)...
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