Re: Help Qic-80

[salfter@chakotay.ncc74656.org (Scott Alfter)]

In article <36A859DC.4E0476E1@swbell.net>,
Rubywand  <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
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>Frank Carney writes ...
>> 
>> I am not sure what a Qic-80 tape is.  Could you explain it?  Then I
>> might be able to help.
> ....
>
>     Just a guess-- sounds like some kind of backup tape, perhaps an
>80MB tape made by Qic. Someone experienced with using the program
>"GS-Tape" could be a good source.

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  It was preceded by QIC-40 and has since been superseded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; the tape drives I currently have
are an Archive Viper 60S (QIC-24 format, SCSI interface, puts 60 megs on a
DC600 cartridge) for my GS and an Exabyte Eagle TR-4i (QIC-3095, IDE, 4 GB)
on one of my "clone" systems.

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