Tape Storage for Dummies

From: CLASSICCMP_at_timaxp.trailing-edge.com <(CLASSICCMP_at_timaxp.trailing-edge.com)>
Date: Tue Sep 15 15:15:11 1998

>>Should've answered this in the previous message: you can order a copy
>>from http://www.ansi.org/, the designation is ANSI X3.27, and it costs
>>US$32.00.
>This isn't really on-topic

I'd disagree - it certainly *is* on topic. The standards used to produce
magnetic and other computer media are of extreme interest to me, both
professionally and otherwise :-).

> but quite a few "common" ISO/ANSI standards seem to
>have ECMA equivalents (ISO9660 is a definite example).

It looks to me like ECMA-13, "File Structure and Labelling of Magnetic
Tapes for Information Interchange", may be the equivalent.

>Copies of these standards cost money to obtain from ISO or ANSI, but the
>identical ECMA documents are available free of charge from the ECMA web site at
>http://www.ecma.ch/.

ECMA-13 isn't available electronically, but it does indeed seem to be
the case that they will provide hardcopy free of charge.

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