On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Kelman, Tom <[email protected]> wrote: > I know this isn't actually a mainframe topic, but it is computer related > and kind of funny. I'm just glad I'm not a performance analyst for > Telkom. > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090910/od_nm/us_safrica_pigeon
Cute, but not so dramatic. In 2001, I was doing a gig, and one of the things they asked about was transferring a 100TB disk array from Japan to the US. They were thinking of renting a 1GB line, but that was pretty expensive. I did a quick calculation and pointed out that if they could shut it down, unship it, get it on a plane, fly it to the US, and plug it back in over a 24-hour period, that was about the same throughput… (Of course, if the plane went down, they were out of business!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
