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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: QIC (Quarter Inch Cartridge) Tape Drive Specs
Keywords: QIC Tape Drive
Message-ID: <740@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 27 Jan 89 19:30:16 GMT
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Reply-To: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
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In article <1434@ritcsh.UUCP> sic@ritcsh.UUCP (Eric A. Neulight) writes:
>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.

My understanding is that the QIC standards are not yet formally endorsed
by any standards committee (ANSI, ISO, IEE, etc.) but are just some
"standards" agreed to by various manufacturers.  As such, it seems folks
are more willing to bend the rules a bit when designing interfaces.
(*SOME* of the QIC standards have been submitted to ANSI.)

>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.

The address:
	Freeman Associates
	Management Consulting
	311 East Carrillo Street
	Santa Barbara, CA  93101
	(805) 963-3853

I called them a while back, and received a four page listing of QIC
standards.  Since then I've called a number of times to get specific
documents and have not heard a word from them.  Well, ya gets what ya
pays for.

Jim Wright