Remember how cassette tapes could contain computer programs? Anyone else rewind a program by twirling a pencil in the spokes? Mind blowing.
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Always wondered by VHS/Beta never got popular as a storage medium. Seems like things just jumped from tapes to floppies.
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Because helical scan is a nightmare for even approximate reconstruction of input data, never mind bit for bit. Remember the tracking knob?
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