[BC] logging question

[WFIFeng@aol.com]

Of course, now, you can do this kind o flogging not only with accurate 
timing, but very economically and in a very small space: A modern computer! Even 
with a compressed bitrate as low as 16Kbps, the audio quality would be vastly 
superior to even the best tape loggers of days gone by. Files could be saved 
every hour, day-by-day, with the time/date data as the filenames. With modern HD's 
being over 300 Gigs, you could store incredible amounts of audio on them.

At 128Kbps, it takes about 600 megs per hour of audio. At that bit-rate, you 
could record about 3 weeks, 24/7. At 16Kbps, that would be 24 weeks. Amazing. 
With today's modern SATA drives being "hot-swappable", you could pop a new one 
in every 24 weeks, storing everything in a very tiny space.

I wonder if the reason stations used to have to keep those rooms full of tape 
archives, was because of the un-"Fairness" doctrine?

Willie...