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    SubjectRe: 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.



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