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Re: tape capacity
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Eric Bender <[log in to unmask]>
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Eric Bender <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 13 Aug 1998 15:19:57 -0400
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At 12:59 PM 8/13/1998 -0600, Simonsen, Larry wrote:
>I thought that the bpi was for bits per inch.  Check of glossary
>confirms this.  So divide by 8.

Yeah, but with 8 (9 with the parity bit) track tape, each byte or character
is stored horizontally across the tape. So I don't think you need to divide
by 8. (However, I don't know why I gave an example earlier of 6400BPI tape
when the industry standard became 6250BPI - memory problem, I guess.)

Eric Bender

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