HW: The Calvert Tape

[Michael S. Habiby]

How is the Punkcast set up?  I liked that format and sized.  Now that I am
broadband I should shut up though.

Michael


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>Behalf Of Tim Gadd
>Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 11:57 AM
>To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU
>Subject: Re: HW: The Calvert Tape
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>
>Can I just get some idea of what kind of file size people would prefer this
>to be broken up into?  Would you prefer a relatively small number of very
>long segments, or a relatively large number of smaller ones which are more
>topic-specific (I'm leaning towards the latter, without making
>them too small).
>
>What sort of size file would people consider small enough to not constitute
>too big a pain to download? I don't want to divide the things up into
>unecessarily small files, but I'd like to still keep them
>manageable. I only
>have a 14.4k modem, so my idea of what constitutes too large is probably
>going to be more conservative than most people's. With my slow
>connection, I
>generally regard anything bigger than about 250k to be fairly offputting,
>but I think these files are going to have to be considerably
>bigger than that.
>
>I just wanted to add that I don't want to get into the business of making
>physical copies of this tape. I haven't been into tape swapping for a long
>time, and there's not really anything I'm particularly after, plus I don't
>want to put repeated strain on a TDK-D low noise tape that's already nearly
>20 years old (yes, transferring it to CD is a good idea.) I'd like
>to do the
>thing once, get it all up on the web, and have it there permanently, so
>anyone can download it and do whatever with it, whenever they like.
>
>--
>Tim Gadd
>Hobart, Tasmania
>