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On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:18:55 -0500, Bill Pragnell wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>> But man was it slow compared to the modern Internet.
>
> Those old-school tubes get more efficient the more data you have to
> send. Say you put a harddrive in the tube, the effective bandwidth would
> be vast compared to even the fastest LAN... ;-D
As long as it doesn't smash into the 'landing pad'. ;-)
>>But it was quite
>> nostalgic. :-)
>
> Ah, nostalgia. Whatever happened to that?
It ain't what it used to be, that's for sure. :-)
Jim
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