In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/12/2005
at 04:38 PM, Ron and Jenny Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Doesn't a 6250 reel tape only hold about 30MB of data,
Far more than that:
BPI Characters on 2400' reel Characters on 3600' reel
200 5,760,000 8,640,000
800 22,080,000 34,560,000
1600 44,160,000 69,120,000
6250 172,500,000 270,000,000
Subtract from those number an IRG allowance depending on the block
size.
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