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RFC 1149
On 4/2/2013 at 6:44 PM Steven Bellovin wrote:
|DLT? I first heard it as a station wagon full of (9-track, 1600 bpi,
|that having been the state of the art) mag tapes on the Taconic
Parkway,
|circa 1970. I suspect, though, that Herman Hollerith expressed the
idea
|about a stage coach full of punchcards, back in the 1880s.
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Oddly, prehaps, those punchcards on the stagecoaches probably will
outlast any magnetic media we have at our disposal today....
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