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Interestingly enough NASA still sends data this way. Huge HDD delivered by hand. Not all data, but I remember reading about some satellite images and similar data where latency doesn’t matter. Can’t beat good old box full of HDD.

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smitty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
yep, radio telescopes send data this way, thats how SETI@home got the Arecibo data

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glorious_albus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I wondered why NASA was using pigeons till I read the rest of your comment.

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BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It was 10 years ago so I don’t know what is the practice now but the “offsite backup” solution in my office was taking a hard drive to a safe at the local bank.

Every week someone would go to the bank to switch the drive that is stored there.

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