[78-L] Cassette tapes are the future of big data storage

[Mike Harkin]

This newfangled wheel thing is a lot of nonsense.  It'll never fly...
Anyway, who needs it?

Mike in Plovdiv

--- On Wed, 10/24/12, Malcolm Rockwell <malcolm at 78data.com> wrote:

> From: Malcolm Rockwell <malcolm at 78data.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Cassette tapes are the future of big data storage
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 3:51 AM
> Sure, why not go full circle. My
> first computer was a Timex-Sinclair and 
> it stored its programs on audio cassettes. I could upload to
> cassette in 
> real time but could download at 2X which was convenient. I
> still have 
> the computer and the cassettes. I haven't fired it up in
> almost 30 years!
> I learned programming beginning c. 1982 in Sinclair Basic
> and machine 
> code. First thing I learned to do was to draw a circle. How
> apropos.
> Mal
> 
> *******
> 
> On 10/23/2012 11:12 AM, Kristjan Saag wrote:
> > http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628875.500-cassette-tapes-are-the-future-of-big-data-storage.html
> >
> > Why not go all the way?
> >
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> >
> > Kristjan
> >
> >
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