Odd QIC-like tape

[Stan Sieler]

Re:
> Yesterday I obtained a car-load of HP150-related stuff. And amongst it 
> was a pair of HP tape drive,s the 9144 and 9145, which use special HP 
> pre-formatted tapes.
...
> looking at theAustralian museum (http://www.hpmuseum.net/), I found a 
> link to a site that impliex these tapes were standard 3M products of the 
> time ,the format was not custom HP, etc.

IIRC, the HP cartridge tapes were definitely pre-formatted ... something
allegedly done only at the factory.  If you wrote on one with a non-HP drive,
it would then be useless in an HP drive.  (IIRC, however, there might have been
a way to re-low-level format them on an HP 9144 or HP 9145 drive, but it 
required an offline utility program and a lot of time.)

Stan
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