Mag Tapes was RE: Got Videotrax card working

[Wai-Sun Chia]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:54:25 -0500, Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic.com> wrote:
> My view is that there are PC class tapes and real tapes.  Real tapes
> include classic half inch reel, DLT, and presumably IBM' cartridges (I
> haven't used those).  The most obvious nasty example of PC class tapes
> are QIC cartridges.  DAT is similar -- those are miniature video
> tapes, forced into pretending to be data tapes.
> 

All my years dealing with the DEC TK tapes (from the 1st gen TK50 to
the SCSI-based TZ89), aftter that Quantum DLTs to today's SDLTs and
LTOs; I've never had any trouble with them.

DATs on the other hand.....

/wai-sun