8mm data cartridges

[Pete Turnbull]

On 08/05/2007 17:04, Chuck Guzis wrote:

> 8 mm wasn't bad.  At about that time, we were heavily involved in 
> specifying tape for customers and we tended to rank things this way:
> 
> DLT > 8mm > 4mm DAT > Travan > QIC. 

Interesting.  That's about my assessment too, though I don't use tapes 
all that much.

> 8mm, like DAT and DLT is an immediate-verify (read after write) 
> technology and isn't bad for the time.  There was the same business 
> about confusing 8mm video carts with 8mm data carts as there was with 
> 4 mm DAT audio with 4 mm data.  Manufacturers said not to substitute, 
> but a lot of individuals did.

Although I see lots of 8mm video tapes used for data, and relatively few 
genuine 8mm data tapes, whereas I see lots of DDS data tapes and very 
few audio DAT tapes.  In fact, I seem to remember that you can't use DAT 
for data, (or was it can't use DDS for audio?) straight off.  I stand to 
be corrected on that, of course :-)

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
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						University of York