Re: NEWSFLASH! Linux ported to Commodore VIC-20!!

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 14 Sep 1998 17:37:48 +0100 (BST)


> Hmm, quickndirty calc for 90 minute tape at 64kbits =40megs or so. If
> you can only get 32kbits then you still get 20megs... The sound
> engineers among us can no doubt confirm bandwidth and S/N issues, but I
> would have thought that at least 32kbits would be doable with a little
> error correction ?

8bit micro people never got about about 3000bits/second off old cassette
tape (MFM or FM encoded). Its just horrible stuff for distortion and
stretching

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