[rescue] Re: rescue Digest, Vol 17, Issue 38

[Ross Bernheim]

On Tuesday, April 6, 2004, at 10:41 AM, rescue-request at sunhelp.org 
wrote:

>>> I like the idea of the older "historical" boxes, but the reality of
>>> storing programs on cassette tape is a challenge...
>>
>>   That's what audio I/O and MP3 files are for.
>
> Are MP3 files really good enough?
>
> On the other hand, I bet you can lower the quality of an uncompressed
> stream a good bit, then use a lossless compression on that.

Given that the files were stored on cheap portable cassette recorders, 
the
sound quality wasn't all that good to begin with. Sure could fit a lot 
of programs
on an iPod, and the indexing would make it easy to find programs!

Ross Bernheim