21 Jul
2010
21 Jul
'10
8:54 p.m.
In article <4C46A57E.15148.5E8BCB at cclist.sydex.com>,
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> writes:
[...] Almost all cartridge DC-
style tapes are recorded "serpentine" style--i.e. start in one
direction, shift the head, reverse, etc...
This is news to me. Every cartridge tape I've ever used recorded data
to the end and then stopped. I don't recall seeing any mechanism for
shifting the tape head in HP264x terminals with DC100 cartridges nor
in Tektronix 4051 terminals with DC300 cartridges.
So the spooling scheme had better work. I'm not
aware of any 32-
channel (for example) QIC heads.
QIC tapes are something different from DC300 and DC100 tapes.
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