On 11/05/2016 09:08 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
- there was no reasonable way to send a gigabyte of data by teletype in the 1950s. The typical speed would be 10 characters per second (110 baud) or less. A gigabyte would take three years solid. And nothing could easily store it.
It wouldn't have been 110 baud in the 50s either. That was 100 words per minute ASCII and ASCII wouldn't have been created until the early 60s. In the 50s, 100 WPM Baudot ran at 74.2 baud. "He pioneered a computerized reservation system for Trans-Canada Airlines (now Air Canada)" Actually, Air Canada and CN shared a reservation system, that was run on a Collins 8500 computer system at 151 Front St. W.. This is the oldest LAN I ever saw, dating back to the 60s. Instead of packets, it used time division multiplexing over the coaxial cable. Later, their system moved to a newer Collins system, which I used to work on. The old system was on the 4th floor at 151 Front and the newer was on the 6th, later expanding to the 7th floor.