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jimbo45 said:

@Kari

We used to call that sort of Networking "Footnet" i.e you physically took a piece of medium out of 1 machine and walked to the other machine and inserted into that one -- those were the days of "Big Blue" IBM mainframes with huge tape reels (still look great in sci-fi films etc) or removeable disc packs that looked like goldfish bowls.

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jimbo

We called it Sneakernet.

We called it a lot of things but none with polite company.

I remember when our IT department had its first automated system for bringing tapes online. A giant robotic arm trundled along a bar and picked up the tape and mounted it on the computer slot. We used to call it the "Juke Box".

Worked for NASA back in the 60s. I can remember the Key Punch Transmittals and the Cards like it was yesterday. The Tapes running and one poor schmuck trying to keep up with all of it sometimes.

Wiley Coyote said:

Worked for NASA back in the 60s. I can remember the Key Punch Transmittals and the Cards like it was yesterday. The Tapes running and one poor schmuck trying to keep up with all of it sometimes.

My mother told me about those punch card computers she worked on Maybe for Elmers Candy in New Orleans back in the late 30 early 40's She met and married my father in 45 I guess since I'm born in 46 IN Washington state!!!

So primitive when we look back now.

Wiley Coyote said:

So primitive when we look back now.

Depends on how you look at it - it was far more advanced than any technology for 99.9% of the previous millennia of recorded human history. I imagine a cavemen saying "we used to use stone fragments"

Cavemen? Umm, potsherds were good enough for the Greeks and Romans at times...

Ostracon - Livius

- and at least they are readable. Try that with a DVD excavated from landfill in 2000 years...