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  • From: Gina Norman <gina AT vnet.net>
  • To: <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Dumb question
  • Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 17:43:28 -0400 (EDT)

> How CDs compare to audio tapes is an easy question. Music
> CDs were spec'd out to fit 74 minutes of music on them. 74 < 90,
> so that's why cassettes will hold more. :-)

Blast. I am obviously doing a really poor job of communicating today.
Here's my question:

Once upon a time, I used a cassette drive to store my little Basic
programs that I wrote on my Vic-20.

Each cassette tape had some capacity to hold data -- just like a CD-R can
hold 650MB, a cassette could hold _some_ amount.

What was that amount? (Assuming I mean a 45 mins./side cassette).

-Gina

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