Stewart B. Lone on Fri, 2 May 2003 14:04:04 -0400 |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mark Dominus wrote: | gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>: | |>If I'm going to want to read the whole of a piece of data from |>beginning to end every time I use it (do we use *any* data like this |>on computers any more?[1]), | | | Mass mailings. Printing checks for the biweekly payroll. Billing. | | Whether anyone does still uses tape for this, I couldn't say, but it | doesn't seem completely implausible. | | _________________________________________________________________________ | Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org | Announcements - http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce | General Discussion -- http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug | | . | Yes. I know for a fact that Verizon uses them at their NOC`s. Rows and rows of them just churning away, recording all pertinant info for everyones calls and roaming for billing purposes. Stewart B Lone 592653589793238@snip.net
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