Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'

[Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>]

On 09/11/2009 06:36 AM, Jeff Kell wrote:
> William Allen Simpson wrote:
> > http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8248056.stm?ad=1
> >
> >
> > Update needed for RFC 1149 (1 April 1990),
> > A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
>
> Truly practical with today's storage media... if the Wiki story is
> correct, it was a 4Gb memory stick
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet 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 :-)

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