Re: NEWSFLASH! Linux ported to Commodore VIC-20!!

Neil Conway (nconway.list@ukaea.org.uk)
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 07:38:24 +0000


Ian Collier wrote:
>
> On Mon, 14 Sep 1998 14:12:19 +0000, Neil Conway said:
> > 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 ?
>
> There is a reason why the Spectrum outputs data at 1.5kbits and not 15...

... and that reason is ? A little less tersely please ;-)

Neil

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