Tim May <tcmay@got.net> wrote:
I have copied to DAT (Digital Audio Tape) several hundred CDs. And a friend of mine has really gone overboard, copying more than 4000 CDs (rock, blues, jazz, country, you name it) onto more than 1000 DATs.
Given that a new CD typically costs about $16 US, and a blank DAT tape costs about $4 for a 3-hour tape, the savings are spectacular. (My friend uses a lot of the 4-hour DATs, but I don't trust them. They jam in some machines.)
You mean you don't just get the mp3 files off the internet like everyone else? :) Why would anyone want to use DAT, when you can just stick the CD in your computer and copy it. Hard disks are so much faster than tapes, and when you consider data compression, don't cost much more. I have hundreds of songs on my computer and I can start playing any one of them in about 2 seconds. Plus I can search by title, etc... Tapes are a pain in the ass and I just use them for backups.