[Gllug] Historical question
Ian Northeast
ian at house-from-hell.demon.co.uk
Sat Aug 14 12:50:52 UTC 2004
Simon Morris wrote:
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> Hi
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> Whilst talking about “old times” we brought up the subject of loading
> applications from audio tapes.
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> What was the capacity of a audio cassete??
IIRC you could run them at 1200bps. A high capacity audio tape was 2
hours, which allowing for 11 bits per byte makes 785KB.
Considerably larger than the memory available in my Acorn Atom to load
it into:)
Regards, Ian
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