[Gllug] Historical question

[Ian Northeast]

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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