"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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> Somebody suggested that by burning data onto a CD-ROM and getting students 
> to cycle to the other side of Cambridge with the CDs in backpacks, you 
> could achieve several GB/s mean transfer rate. Of course, the packet 
> latency would be about 25 minutes each way…

I remember reading about a company that had to send engineering drawings and 
data between shops just at the dawn of modem technology. They investigated 
micro-ficheing the data and use carrier pigeons to transfer it, because of 
the volume of data. I don't know if it's true, but I've always loved that 
story.

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Jac

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