It helps that tape drives were really low-speed/low-density, which makes things more robust. See this RFC on Ultra Low-Speed Networking: https://tools.ietf.org/

It helps that tape drives were really low-speed/low-density, which makes things more robust. See this RFC on Ultra Low-Speed Networking: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1217 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1217