On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote:
> From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter_at_shell.monmouth.com>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 14:26:10 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: QIC-36/QIC-02
> Reply-To: classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu
>
> In a message Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian wrote:
> >
> > Could you give an example where we may have seen a QIC36 or QIC02 tape? It
> > doesn't ring a bell here.
> >
>
> The tapes are DC300, DC450, DC600, DC6150, DC6250, DC6350 etc.
> They've been used in everything from Sun and other Unix workstations
> through PDP's to early PC/XT's.
>
> Common manufacturers were Archive, Techmar, Tandberg.
> QIC-36 and QIC-02 were the interface standards for the
> drives. QIC-36 and QIC-02 drives often could interchange tapes.
> The difference was the amount of smarts in the controller vs. the
> tape drive (I seem to remember).
If I'm not mistaken, Tandberg is still cranking out the 5.25" QIC drives. I
have a TDC-4100 on my desktop and it's a tank.
The QIC Standards folk have a web site, which seems to be unreachable at the
moment:
http://www.qic.org
Last time I visited, they had a nice table of QIC standard formats there.
>
> My PC and some workstations used QIC-36 tape drives with a QIC36-QIC02
> converter board.
>
> Some of these also used QIC-36 or QIC-02 to SCSI converters.
>
> Bill
>
>
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