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Article #1353Re: (paper tape) file transfers
From: s... Steve Lamont
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1990 13:30
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1990 13:30
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In article <1990Feb16.0...@cs.rochester.edu> k...@cs.rochester.edu writes: >A colleague of mine who spent some time working for a national security >agency a while back tells me that the "torn tape relay system" was >routinely used for forwarding telex bulletins. Seems to me that the wire services used to do precisely the same thing, way back when. spl (the p stands for punched paper tape chads make great confetti) -- Steve Lamont, sciViGuy (919) 248-1120 EMail: s...@ncsc.org NCSC, Box 12732, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 "That's People's Commissioner Tirebiter -- and NOBODY'S sweetheart!" - F. Scott Firesign
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!shelby!mcnc!spl From: s...@mcnc.org (Steve Lamont) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: (paper tape) file transfers Message-ID: <6236@alvin.mcnc.org> Date: 16 Feb 90 13:30:25 GMT References: <18389@cc.usu.edu> <90045.160214BRL102@psuvm.psu.edu> <1990Feb15.211546.28308@utzoo.uucp> <1990Feb16.035647.19773@cs.rochester.edu> Reply-To: spl@mcnc.org.UUCP (Steve Lamont) Organization: Foo Bar Brewers Cooperative Lines: 17 Posted: Fri Feb 16 14:30:25 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit