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Subject: Re: Todd Rundgren & Computers & Amiga
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Date: Wed, 1-Apr-87 03:29:45 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  1 03:29:45 1987
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Summary: Mac sampling not 16 bit



>Todd said he heard someone had completely downloaded a copy of
>Peter Gabriel's "SO" album on to a Mac II hard disk.  This same
>someone was able to play it back through the Mac II's 16-Bit D/A's!!

Horse puckey.  The Mac II has >>8-bit<< sampling at 44 kHz.  And
to record a whole album at that rate, even with 8-bit resolution,
would take about 100 megabytes.  In mono.  You can't get a hard
disk that big for the Mac II yet.