Re: IIe tape drive

[david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)]

kibri@eudoramail.com (Tom Brown) writes:

>david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson) wrote in message news:<3cd23303$1@news.uow.edu.au>...
>> These days you could use a Mini-Disc recorder :-). This has the nice features
>> of editable tracks and track titles - up to 99 tracks on 80/160/320 minutes
>> per disk depending on the quality you need (160min in mono should be
>> no problem). Smaller than a cassette recorder as well...

>Excellent Suggestion, the oid audio recorder system is very slow, I
>even think that the SCSI Tape Drive was pretty slow and useless, sold
>mine years ago.  I backup on superdrives on HD 1.44 Floppies, faster
>and more data stored on less disks (yes I still have 128K diskettes
>too).  Tom

I am going to transfer an Apple // tape to a mini disc just for the bragging
rights. I think I only ever purchased one pre-recorded tape for my Apple //,
a Scott Adamson? adventure game set in Egypt with pyramids etc.

Obviously this is a very inefficent way of using a minidisc - you could buy
data minidiscs and recorders at one stage - I think the raw uncompressed
storage is about 185MB compared to a 74min CDRW of 650MB - that is the audio
compression Sony's ATRAC achieves. 
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia