DTC TakeTen media?

[Tom Gardner]

According to DTC's 1987 prospectus the Company began limited shipments of its TakeTen 10-megabyte removable-cartridge disk drive in December 1986. The TakeTen is based on technology developed by Data Technology in collaboration with Eastman Kodak. The storage cartridge is manufactured by Verbatim Corporation (“Verbatim”), an Eastman Kodak subsidiary, and incorporates a high-performance flexible magnetic disk encased in a rigid plastic shell.

The Kodak drive was based on a license from DriveTec

DTC was acquired Qume and changed its name to Qume.

It stopped producing these sorts of drives in 1991

Tom


-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Guzis [mailto:cclist at sydex.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 11:48 AM
To: CCtalk
Subject: DTC TakeTen media?

On the subject of oddball PC media, does anyone out there have media for
the DTC "Take Ten" cartridge drive?   I've got the drive here, still in
original shrink-wrap and packaging, but no media, so I don't have the faintest idea if it still works.

As the 5.25" cartridges only held 10MB, I suspect this was a flash-in-the-pan venture.  I'd never heard of one back in the day when everyone was using Bernoulli drives.

--Chuck