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Re: Cassette Capacity

Subject: Re: Cassette Capacity
From: Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>
Date: 01 Dec 2009 06:22:41 GMT
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Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
> With 1.5TB SATA drives now regularly on sale for less than $90, it's
> hard to justify any other medium.

I don't know.  At 1500bps, you can back up a gigabyte to cassette tape
in a little over two months.  And at roughly 500KB per 60-minute cassette,
you'd only need a couple thousand of them.

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