"Martin Gregorie"  wrote in message
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>>> Best is to use postal pigeons with those card for data,
>>> it is cheaper and faster per GB than the internet ;-)

I remember a guy I used to work with at ICL had a sign above his desk saying
"Never underestimate the information transfer rate of a truck-load of mag
tapes" which is the same principle.

That was in the days of reel-to-reel mag tapes that were about 18 inches
diameter - not even the QIC cartridges or DAT tapes. The joys of going down
to the firesafe in the bowels of BRA01, to get the next backup tape to load
into the tape drive and to take last night's tape to the safe.

Are tapes still used much for computer backups, or has everyone gone over to
remote off-site backup onto hard disc? I used to backup my own things to
CD-RW, back in the days when I could fit all my documents, emails and photos
onto a single CD. It was a real PITA having to wait while the drive added a
new session to store the new or changed files, and then incur an even longer
delay while the disc was wiped clean to recover all the space that was lost
from obsolete versions of a file.

Backing up to memory stick or external HDD has speeded things up
dramatically.

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