Date   : Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:35:35 +0100
From   : Tim Fardell <tim.fardell@...>
Subject: Re: floppy discs

Pete Turnbull wrote:
> 
> MP3 is a tried and tested method of storing audio files for 70s and 80s
> micros.

Surprising that, though. You wouldn't think it would work very well at all 
would you? Then again, I suppose it's only got a tone of a single frequency to 
encode at any given instant, changing relatively infrequently, so all it has to 
throw away is noise, which is not necessarily a bad thing :-)

Having said that, I still wouldn't choose it - I'd go for a low-sample-rate PCM 
WAV and PKZIP it.