[Gllug] Historical question

[SteveC]

* John Winters (john at sinodun.org.uk) wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 12:50, Simon Morris wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Whilst talking about ?old times? we brought up the subject of loading
> > applications from audio tapes.
> > 
> > What was the capacity of a audio cassete??
> 
> One LP on each side.

sat they were 2400 bit/sec and an hour for both sides

2400 bit/sec * 3600 sec / 8 bit/byte / 1024 byte/k

== 1054 k

hmmmmmm

have fun,

SteveC steve at fractalus.com http://www.fractalus.com/steve/
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