[rescue] Lossless audio capture

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net>
>Date: 2006/10/26 Thu PM 03:29:34 CDT
>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [rescue] advice on rescuing an e10k

>On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Bill Bradford wrote:
>
>>> SGI "Python" drive could read + write audio over scsi bus to the 4mm
>>> drive.  Bad. Ass.
>>
>> And this is practically useful HOW? 8-)
>
>Lossless audio capture from your workstation, rather than having to
>purchase a deck, back in the days when 2GB drives were "huge"?

Lossless? How can you convert analog to digital without *any* loss? (yes, I'm picking nits)

Using a multi-thousand dollar computer to take the place of a high-quality tape deck seems like "six of one, half-dozen of another"...

Lionel