Re: Cassette Capacity

["winston19842005@yahoo.com" <winston19842005@yahoo.com>]

On Dec 1, 1:22 am, Andy McFadden <fad...@fadden.com> wrote:
> Michael J. Mahon <mjma...@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.
>

Hmm. Now me wonders about the "wafertape" systems, like the stringy-
floppy thingy the TRS-80 people used, or the Coleco Adam's tape
systems...? I have an Adam, and the tape drive is actually quite
wonderful. Never did experience the "erase tape on power-on" problem
reported, and I didn't know better for about 6 months of using it...