Talk:Quarter inch cartridge

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[edit] Fidelipac or NAB Cart

I don't know the history of QIC and Fidelipac development. Is there any connection? Should there be a link to Fidelipac? Binksternet 20:09, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] QIC Consortium

I've added a rather blatant plug for the trade association. Despite being a mere independant developer I always found dealing with them to be a breath of fresh air- none of this "send us $10,000 to join and we'll send you the standards". Curious that QIC has survived so well while other standardisation attempts- I2O and AlphaWindows spring to mind- failed so utterly. MarkMLl 17:56, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Linear vs serpentine

I noticed that somebody removed my early reference to QIC being serpentine, and would be interested in what other editors think. QIC quite simply isn't linear- linear refers to the original 7- and 9-track tapes, and should not be over-used simply to mean "not helical". MarkMLl 20:41, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] More images

The Italian Wikipedia has a couple photos of QIC tapes. [1] [2] Austin Murphy (talk) 13:54, 11 June 2008 (UTC)