Which is why, ages ago, we had the saying, "never underestimate the throughput of a station wagon full of tapes." Much more recently, in the early 2000's, after benchmarking a connection to South East Asia, we found that a daily transfer of large amounts of data was faster on DVD's and FedEx.
On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 7:02 PM Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 08:26:21AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > I need to download ~15G of data from a web site. Using a PLUG mail list > > Ignoring frequent outages, that pencils out to one 1970 > dollar per 3.6 kilobytes. Inflation is 7.75x from 1970 > to 2023, so that is $7.75 (2023) per 3.6 kB, a bit more > than $2 per kilobyte, hence thirty million dollars (and > 16 years) to move 15 gigabytes at 300 baud. > >
