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Originally Posted by Hartley118
ISTR The Song of Reproduction summed up the challenge of domestic tape recording back in the 1950s along the lines of:
"I've an opera here that you shan't escape on MILES and MILES of recording tape!"
Martin
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1 mile = 1760 yards = 63360 inches
At 7.5 ips (the fastest speed commonly used for domestic recording, 15 ips was very uncommon) that's 8448 seconds of recording. So about 2 hours 20 minutes.
But that is just one mile of tape. I think for 'miles and miles' you'd need to have the entire Wagner Ring Cycle..
More seriously, how long was the longest commonly used tape (in miles)?