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		benj111 on Sept 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PO-80 Record Factory The read/write thing got me on the train of thought of DVD-RW. It uses 5 in discs so an LPRW would fit in a standard bay. If it records at 33 and plays at 78 it's even a LPRW X 2.23! I wonder how much data you could store...

mmastrac on Sept 29, 2022 [–]

Based on cassette data rates using audio encoding, and a total hand-wavey ballpark of ~10kB/min using modern encoding techniques, I'd totally guesstimate about 100kB of data on there.

benj111 on Sept 29, 2022 | [–]

Well that's more than enough for anyone!

SoftTalker on Sept 29, 2022 | | [–]

My old TI-99/4a stored 90kb on a 5" floppy disk.

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