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Twenty five years ago we said "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a
station wagon full of mag tapes hurtling down the highway." The tapes
have got smaller as has the station wagon which has also grown wings
and a self-directing control system. That's progress.
William Allen Simpson wrote:
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Truly practical with today's storage media... if the Wiki story is
correct, it was a 4Gb memory stick
(Sneakernet - Wikipedia under "Usage Examples"). There
was the old "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full
of tapes hurtling down the highway. �Tanenbaum, Andrew S." but then a
pigeon would have trouble hauling 9-track tapes 
Jeff
Heck, your average sheet of paper with your average laser printer is
about 5Mb. And that's random access, not some crufty sequential seeking
tape 
Mike
I don't know when Andy Tanenbaum said it, but I first heard it in 1969,
referring to the Taconic Parkway in New York....
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb