Mike Westerfield wrote:
I was just moving gigabytes of data around on terabyte sized drives, and was remembering the good old days, when you could more or less grasp how much stuff was on a disk. That led me to wonder how much stuff was on the first storage device I ever used on an Apple II. Does anyone recall about how much information could be stored on a cassette tape on an Apple II? I realize it varied by tape size, so the appropriate unit is probably bytes per minute. Mike
Someone else may want to chime in on this as well, but I seem to recall getting about 100,000 bytes per 60 minute cassette. Or roughly 13kb per 60 min. Simple math will give you the per minute conversion, if you really need it. :)
I may be recalling the Commodore and Atari data-cassettes, though. Someone else, please back me up on this, if this is valid memeory. :)