Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 14 Sep 1998 15:33:32 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | | Subject | Re: NEWSFLASH! Linux ported to Commodore VIC-20!! |
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On 14 Sep 1998, Anders Melchiorsen wrote: > hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin) writes: > > In all seriousness, with the processing speed of modern CPUs it > > probably would be a no-brainer to support data storage to tape. In > > fact, it really isn't very different from the "sound card modem" > > stuff (tape adds some funky failure modes that phone lines don't have, > > but that can probably be ignored. Of course, all error-correction has > > to be forward error correction, since it isn't possible to get > > feedback from the receiver. Hmm... if nothing else, this just might > > have enough hack value for someone to do it "just because".) > > How much data would an audio tape be able to carry? Are we talking a > few hundred kilobytes or are we in the megabyte range?
On a CBM64 with fastloader, 50K took about 2 minutes. So a C-90 tape gives you about 2 MB.
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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