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From: robison@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: General file transfer by E-mail
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Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 11:09:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  8 11:09:00 1987
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> Electronic mail is already in place, and arbitrary file transfer is
> such a fundamental need, it seems crazy (and frustrating!) that we
> still must revert to the stone age practice of writing and shipping
> magnetic tapes.
>

Shipping magnetic tapes is not always ineffecient.  A small tape will
hold about 10 megabytes.  On a 1200 baud uucp connection that would
take almost a *day* of telephone time to transfer.  (Not that I mind,
I have stock in ATT.)  

Arch D. Robison
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
	
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