A high-speed, high-capacity digital data storage system has been developed for a newudballoon-borne gamma-ray telescope {see paper 0G9.2-2). The system incorporates sophisticated, yet easyudto use and economical consumer products: the portable video cassette recorder (VCR) and a relativelyudnewer item - the "digital audio processor". The in-flight recording system employs eightudVCRs and will provide a continuous data storage rate of 1.4 megabits/sec throughout a 40 hourudballoon flight. Data storage capacity is 25 gigabytes and power consumption is only 10 watts.
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