Re: [Hampshire] old gits/old school: was Recurrent Hardware …

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Author: Victor Churchill
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] old gits/old school: was Recurrent Hardware Problem
On 4 March 2010 21:59, Lisi <hantslug@???> wrote:
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> We had to carry data in Securicor vans on the motorway from the various sites
> to HQ, so that the punch card room could punch the data up and computer
> operators could feed it into the one enormous machine .....


I recall an old .signature that Hugo used to have appear under his mails:

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a Volvo filled with backup tapes.

(I was prompted to estimate it, and the result was quite scary!)