Author: Ian Park Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] old gits/old school: was Recurrent Hardware Problem
Victor Churchill wrote: > On 4 March 2010 21:59, Lisi <hantslug@???> wrote:
>> 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!)
> Or on a similar theme, never under-estimate the rate of energy transfer
when petrol tank of said Volvo (a 240 estate, of course) is being filled
up from a petrol pump...
Ian
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