<story><title>Atari Vax Mail, Memos and Status Reports: 1982-1992 (2001)</title><url>http://www.jmargolin.com/vmail/vmail.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zipperhead</author><text>Almost 30 years ago:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  From:	KIM::ALBAUGH      &amp;quot;Dr. Bizarro&amp;quot; 30-JUN-1986 08:42:44.50
  To:	@SYS$MAIL:JUNK
  CC:	
  Subj:	Paranoid on Soapbox with Product Idea


	The National Security Agency has proposed that ALL encryption be
  done with devices designed by them, the internal workings of which will be
  not be divulged. They apparently didn&amp;#x27;t like the public debate on the last
  voluntary standard (for which SOME details were published), centering on
  whether it had been designed to allow them to easily read &amp;quot;private&amp;quot;
  communications. If this doesn&amp;#x27;t bother you, consider what your reaction would be
  to the U.S. Postal service ( which already  has a legal monopoly on carrying
  mail) proposing that, for effiency, only it could provide envelopes and these
  envelopes could only be sealed and opened by postal service employees.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Atari Vax Mail, Memos and Status Reports: 1982-1992 (2001)</title><url>http://www.jmargolin.com/vmail/vmail.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lemevi</author><text>This is great:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Due to a severe increase in demand, we are forced to state some
   kind of policy on private archival backup tapes.  Effective immediately,
   anyone can have a backup done on a BYOT (bring your own tape) basis.

    All of the above applies to floppies, as well as tape; floppies are
   a little more convenient to store, but don&amp;#x27;t hold as much.  Rough figures
   follow:

    Tape (2400 ft, 8KB block size) = 40MB storage, or 80,000 disk blocks
   (figure 75K blocks after backup adds its own overhead)

    Floppies (single density, our default) = .25MB, or 500 disk blocks.

    Floppies (double density, YOU MUST SPECIFY) = .5MB, or 1,000 disk
    blocks.  If you want double density, all of the floppies to be written on
    must be pre-initialized before the backup starts.      Therefore, you need to
    KNOW beforehand just how many floppies are to be used.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
It makes me think about our company&amp;#x27;s 1MB web page download, as it would require 60ft of Atari tape storage. XD&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jmargolin.com&amp;#x2F;vmail&amp;#x2F;Vax83.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jmargolin.com&amp;#x2F;vmail&amp;#x2F;Vax83.txt&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>