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From: mike@raven.uss.tek.com (Mike Ewan)
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Subject: Re: various tape capacities
Keywords: TK70, TK50, 1/2"
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Date: 1 Sep 90 03:29:18 GMT
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In article <1806@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> tim@watson.bcm.tmc.edu (Timothy Owen Lesniak) writes:
> [...]

>TK70
I believe this is 128Mb.

>TK50
This is somewhere between 60 and 90Mb depending on how fast you 
stream the data to the device.

The above are listed in the DEC Direct catalog.

>1/2" (reel-to-reel on a TU81 at 6250 bpi)
Tape_length_in_feet * 12 * density.
A 2400 foot tape will be 180Mb.

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