23.025 What is a "Qic" tape? A friend needs to read a Qic-80 tape.
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This article is from the Apple II Csa2 FAQ, by Jeff Hurlburt with numerous contributions by others.
23.025 What is a "Qic" tape? A friend needs to read a Qic-80 tape.
QIC-80 is a format, not a brand or a specifier of capacity. Uncompressed
capacity for tapes in this format range from 60 megs (DC2120) to 250 megs (TR-
1 Extra). It was preceded by QIC-40 and has since been superseded by QIC-3010,
QIC-3020, and QIC-3095 (the latter format delivers 4 gigabytes (uncompressed)
on a TR-4 tape, and is available in SCSI and IDE flavors for fast operation).
I'm not sure what format the 40-meg tape drive Apple used to sell
used...it might've been QIC-80 with a shorter tape (they use DC2000 tapes), but
it was probably different. I've never had one. For my GS, the tape drive I
currently use is an Archive Viper 60S (QIC-24 format, SCSI interface, puts 60
megs on a DC600 cartridge).
By: Supertimer
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