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- From: hbj@engr.uark.edu (Bernard Johnson)
- Subject: Re: What's the real difference between QIC-40 and QIC-80?
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 09:11:31 GMT
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- richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel) writes:
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- >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?).
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- Bernard Johnson
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