And then I had an idea that might make the transfer easier. Targeting the Sun office in El Segundo, just south of the Los Angeles International Airport, I began by doing queries on several workstations to learn what devices were attached to them. I was looking for a user who had a tape drive connected to his computer. When I found one, I called him on the phone and said I was with the Sun Engineering Group in Mountain View. "I understand you have a tape drive connected to your workstation," I said. "One of my engineers is at a client site in LA, and I need to transfer some files to him, but they’re pretty large to transfer over a modem. Do you have a blank tape you could stick in your drive, so I could write the data to that instead?"