> 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?
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