Beetle-Net

From: Bill Pechter <pechter_at_pechter.dyndns.org>
Date: Thu Jan 25 15:44:56 2001

> > I have used an RLV12 in a uVAX-II (in a BA-23 upgraded by DEC from uVAX-I
> > to uVAX-II, just for painful accuracy). It's one of my favorite ways of
> > migrating smallish amounts of data between DEC boxes not on the same
> > wires (site-to-site moves), at least it was back in the days of 1200 baud
> > dial-up. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a VW Beetle with a backseat
> > full of 10Mb removable cartridges.
>
> Aha! Beetle-Net - the prior century's quantum improvement on
> Sneaker-Net.

>From the *BSD fortune files:

> Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes.
Works even better with CD's.

--Bill
Received on Thu Jan 25 2001 - 15:44:56 GMT

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