Re: What's the real difference between QIC-40 and QIC-80?

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From: Bernard Johnson
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 09:11

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richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel) writes:

>What feature is it that makes the DC2120 tape store 120M on a Jumbo
>250 and only 60M on a Jumbo 120?  Does QIC-80 have twice as many
>tracks?  Is the linear density doubled?  Both run from the same floppy
>controller, so I doubt encoding differences.
>
I think it has a larger recording head for one.  (Makes it more dense?).

Bernard Johnson
hbj@engr.uark.edu

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