The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #96678   Message #1893368
Posted By: Bernard
25-Nov-06 - 02:25 PM
Thread Name: Archive Recordings Lost Forever
Subject: RE: Archive Recordings Lost Forever
Oo-er... back to the punched tape!! I think even the smallest audio file would need something the size of Encyclopaedia Britannica to store it...!

One megabyte is a million bytes, as near as doesn't matter for the sake of argument (okay, one kilobyte is really 1024 bytes!). Each byte is eight bits, so that's 8 million bits.

An average audio track is around 50Mb, so that's 4000 million (4 billion?) bits... hrump!! That's a lot of paper, even in small print...!

Anyone care to try it and report back?!

;o)