> 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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