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

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 01:11:11 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> [snip]
> > What about DAT? :-)
>
> As in DAT audio? Nope. Compressed with a perceptual codec simmlar to MP2
> audio at 192Kbits a sec.
>
> The DAT tape technolgy is very simmlar to the VIDEO in VHS. It uses a
> helical scan head. Thats why you get so much data on computer dat tapes.

I know. I have a DDS-1 drive.

But people were moving from C-64 audio tapes to newer technologies like VHS
video for backup. Hence the smiley...

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium




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