EMITAPE = Emergency blip

This morning I took the dog for a fly - it was pretty windy but the rain held off. When I got home I spent quite a while finishing off the tree - my wife started it last week and we've been too busy to finish it until today. After lunch I watched a few retro repair videos, and then when I went to check the weather for the dog walk I discovered my wife's greenhouse had undergone rapid wind assisted unplanned disassembly. To prevent further damage I went out and took as much of it apart as possible, and I'm hoping now having nearly all it's panels removed it won't fly away and do any further damage...

I've given up on the idea of a dog walk - when it's not raining the wind isn't too bad, but there is a lot of stuff flying about in the wind which is dangerous - and I think the dog and I will have to skip the walk until the wind calms down.

Today's back blip is an EMI branded cassette tape for computers (Commodore 64) in this case. For the curious this 20 minute tape (10 minutes per side) holds about 44 KiB of data in total. The blip of it is 511 KiB, so I'd need 12 tapes like this to hold the picture using the default Commodore 64 tape encoding method. The Turbo tape routines would pack the data a lot more tightly, so I'd only need 2 tapes. Though of course the Commodore 64 only had 64 KiB of RAM to start with so holding the picture would be a challenge....!