Re: Cassette Capacity

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Dec 1, 4:22 pm, 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.

And in this day and age, with accelerated Apple II's being the norm,
you can probably keep up with one of those fandangled cassette decks
that support high speed dubbing. Might even get the whole job done
within a standard lifetime...

As the saying goes, it's hard to beat a wagon full of backup tapes for
bandwidth, but the latency (particularly in this case) is a bitch :-)