On 4/2/2013 at 6:44 PM Steven Bellovin wrote: |DLT? I first heard it as a station wagon full of (9-track, 1600 bpi, |that having been the state of the art) mag tapes on the Taconic Parkway, |circa 1970. I suspect, though, that Herman Hollerith expressed the idea |about a stage coach full of punchcards, back in the 1880s. ================
Oddly, prehaps, those punchcards on the stagecoaches probably will outlast any magnetic media we have at our disposal today....
