recovering cartridge tapes (was: Tek fiches found!)

[Tony Duell]

> > > QIC tapes are something different from DC300 and DC100 tapes.
> > 
> > Really?  DC300 = quarter-inch tape, 300 feet, written by lots of 
> > "QIC" 4 and 9 track drives in serpentine fashion, including the IBM 
> > 6157.  My old 3M catalog lists it as a quarter-inch tape.  I've got 
> > one here; fits in a standard-sized QIC drive and works like any other 
> > QIC cart (e.g. DC600A).
> 
> DC600 != DC300 != DC100

Correct, but so what?

Perhaps you could tell me what my Archive Sidewinder drive acyually is, 
then. It takes DC300 tapes according to everything I've read, it records 
a QIC-11 format using 4 traces in a serpentine fashion.

-tony