Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:12:55 +1000 (EST) | From | Nathan Hand <> | Subject | Re: NEWSFLASH! Linux ported to Commodore VIC-20!! |
| |
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Neil Conway wrote:
> Anders Melchiorsen wrote: > > > > 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? > > Hmm, quickndirty calc for 90 minute tape at 64kbits =40megs or so. If > you can only get 32kbits then you still get 20megs... The sound > engineers among us can no doubt confirm bandwidth and S/N issues, but I > would have thought that at least 32kbits would be doable with a little > error correction ?
The maths is a lot harder than that. You'd be lucky to get 5MB on a C-90, even with top quality record/playback heads.
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |