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From: sic@ritcsh.UUCP (Eric A. Neulight)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.misc
Subject: QIC (Quarter Inch Cartridge) Tape Drive Specs
Keywords: QIC Tape Drive
Message-ID: <1434@ritcsh.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 89 19:21:22 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science House @ RIT - Rochester, NY
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Ok, I have posted this before, but what the hay.  Enough people have
inquired again.

The documentation on the proposed standard QIC (Quarter Inch Cartidge)
Tape Drive interfaces are publicly available as such.  It is an ANSI
standard, and if you speak the right magic to the right ear at ANSI in
New York City, they will give you the number of a management company in
California that has been placed in charge of distributing such docs.
As far as I understand, they are available to anyone for the price of a
phone call (yes, they are FREE, I think -- whot a bogin!).  The company
is Freeman Associates Management Consulting at 331 East Carrillo Street
in Santa Barbara, CA.

So if you are rightfully POed at the jerks at some anti-social company
who will not disclose one iota of info on their super top-secret
proprietary _QIC_standard_ tape drive.  Most likely they at least
partially followed the QIC standard and you should be able to get
most of the functionality out of the drive, save any non-standard
extra features they might have added.

Glad to be of service.  Hope this stuff helps.

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