4 Oct
2009
4 Oct
'09
11:20 a.m.
On 4 Oct 2009 at 15:10, Nico de Jong wrote:
The oldest floppy tape product I've seen, is the
MicroSolutions
BackPack. I believe it is from the late 80's. They also had a QIC-80
product. Horrible system. Don't know about Cipher.
The Cipher 525 documentation on Bitsavers indicates 1984. It came in
two flavors--an SA850 (8") interface and an SA450 (5.25") interface.
The recording medium was DC600A carts. As a lower-cost alternative
to a standard QIC-02 interface drive, it wasn't a horrible
implementation. I think things started going downhill when the
minicart (DC-2000) drives were introduced and efforts to pack ever-
increasing amounts of data on a limited medium were mounted with
questionable success.
--Chuck