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Anybody out there as young as I am may not have ever seen mag tapes in actual use, other than as the standard 'computer cliche' in 70s movies.

I swiped this tape from a discard pile as a historical memento.

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Now if you read the label below and work out the math:

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1600 bytes per inch
2400 feet of tape
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the capacity of this tape is about 44 megabytes.

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