At 10:28 AM 10/11/2006, you wrote:
If we were ever in a real hurry, where FEDEX was too slow, we would
take the tape to Lambert International Airport (St. Louis), and put it
on the next flight out to where ever it needed to go.
So I guess the question I'm wondering...
How many others have shipped dumps, online, back before high speed
Internet connections?
I drove to Lambert Airport from Quincy, Illinois to ship a tape in 1968.
It was a PAPER tape reel!
I had written a communications program in 1130 assembler for Gardner Denver,
transmitting data and programs at 2000 bps. (Well, since we were using STR
communications [BSC not yet invented] which had no transparent mode, the
effective data rate was two thirds of that [hand-coded transparency]).
Unfortunately the bug I needed to fix was in the communications itself.
So I showed up at the airport with a tiny reel of paper tape. Air
Freight looked at
it and laughed. I ended up giving it to the co-pilot of the next
plane out. We had
the guy receiving it in Cincinnati buy him a beer!
Ah, the Good Old Days.
Bob Shair
Open Systems Consulting
Champaign, Illinois
