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Re: Archiving disks to tape? (late 1970s)
- Subject: Re: Archiving disks to tape? (late 1970s)
- From: David Wilson <mcs6502@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:31:02 -0700
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On Oct 24, 9:38 am, Linards Ticmanis <ticma...@gmx.de> wrote:
> It says that "with special
> software", up to 30 floppies could be archived to one cassette. This
> would indeed have been quite a bit less costly than buying another 30
> disks for 5 Deutsche Mark apiece.
It would indeed have been "special" software.
At an average of 1500 bps (see http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=495&coll=ap
for more details) a C60 cassette would have been able to fit
approximately 675kBytes - a C90 could have fitted a Megabyte.
This is nowhere near 30x 143kB.