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From: lgl@blake.acs.washington.edu (Laurence G Lundblade)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: tk70 density and length
Message-ID: <1387@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 29 Mar 89 23:25:42 GMT
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In-reply-to: quentin@umb.umb.edu's message of 22 Mar 89 18:36:28 GMT

The TK70 uses serpentine recording so it records more than one track
on the tape. Four seems the right number of tracks when you multiply 
it by 600 * 10240 * 12 to get 296Mb. I don't know why you have to
multiply by eight.

     .....Laurence