> I listened to a piece about Arabic immigrants who worked for oil drilling
> efforts off the coast of South America decades ago, i forget whether it
> was in the 80's or 90's.  International phone calls were prohibitively
> expensive, so they would record a cassette tape full of audio and send it
> back home to their family.  Their families would respond in kind with
> messages from multiple people on the same tape.

> My family did that with me when i went off to college.  I wish i had
> held on to those tapes!  I had multiple weather-related data loss
> incidents in my youth.

That is pretty neat, especially when you consider that email was not really
a public thing back then.  Sort of an early form of audio-conferencing. :)

Mike


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