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From: macklin@garnet.berkeley.edu (Macklin Burnham)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Pioneer 6
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Date: 20 Dec 90 16:42:23 GMT
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In article <1990Dec19.194125.18440@cbnewsh.att.com> mrb1@cbnewsh.att.com (maurice.r.baker) writes:
>miles (apologies to the metric system fans out there :-) and transmitted
>back more than 15 billion bits of data on the sun.  It made the 1st detailed
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

At a data rate of 8 bits per second! Mack Burnham