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In their classic article published in 1970*, Roberts and Wessler compare the
cost per megabit for a variety of transmission media including mailing an IBM
tape.  (Which was lower by an order of magnitude than any
other medium.)

*"Computer network development of achive resource sharing," Proceedings of
the AFIPS Spring Joint Computer Conference, vol 36, May 5-7, 1970 pp.
543-549.