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There's also stereo to consider, right? So you could get up to 2X bandwidth. (Channel separation issues might mean less than 2X in practice, though.) If you wa
by adrianmonk 5y ago
There's also stereo to consider, right? So you could get up to 2X bandwidth. (Channel separation issues might mean less than 2X in practice, though.)
If you want to stretch the definition of "cassette", tapes are two-sided, and there were 4-track recorders that used all 4 tracks in one direction. They weren't anything too exotic. Musicians used them for cheap recordings for demos and such.
- hulitu 5y agoYou don't want stereo. Only as an error correction maybe.
- adrianmonk 5y agoI'm not a tape expert, but in the spirit of learning more, I did some quick research, and it seems that multi-track tape is very common for data. IBM started doing it in the 1950s and 1960s with 7-track[1] and then 9-track[2] tape. It's still being done today with LTO[3]. --- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7_track https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7_track [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_track_tape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_track_tape [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open