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QIC Data Cartridge (1972 – 2000s)

QIC (Quarter Inch Cartridge) is a family of magnetic tape formats for data storage, using quarter inch tape. The original QIC was known as a Data Cartridge and was introduced by 3M in 1972. QIC is...

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Travan (1995 – 2002)

Travan is a magnetic tape format based on QIC and introduced by 3M in 1995. Although based on QIC (Quarter Inch Cartridge), Travan tapes use 8mm wide tape of 750 feet. The tape is not attached to the...

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QIC-EXtra (QIC-EX) (1996 – 2000s)

QIC-EX (QIC-EXtra) was a modification to the Quarter Inch Cartridge format, introduced by the Verbatim Corporation. By making the cartridges physically longer, they could accommodate larger spools. In...

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QIC Minicartridge (late 1970s – mid 1990s)

QIC (Quarter Inch Cartridge) Minicartridge was a smaller variant of the original QIC Data Cartridge, and was used mostly for personal computers due to its low cost and small form factor (internal...

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QIC-Wide (1994 – 2000s)

QIC-Wide was a variant of QIC Minicartridge that used wider 8mm (0.315 inch) tape along with increased recording density, in a shell with the same dimensions as the QIC Minicartridge. It was...

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Ditto (1992 – 1999)

Ditto was a line of proprietary magnetic tape formats for data storage, introduced by Iomega in 1992. They were based on QIC standards, and different versions of Ditto used either the QIC...

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Scalable Linear Recording (SLR) (1986 – 2015)

Scalable Linear Recording (SLR) is based on the QIC Data Cartridge format, and was the name used by Tandberg Data for their larger-capacity QIC drives and tapes. The first generation of SLR tapes...

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Scalable Linear Recording (SLR) (8 mm) (1997 – 2015)

Scalable Linear Recording (SLR) is based on the QIC Data Cartridge format, and was the name used by Tandberg Data for their larger-capacity QIC drives and tapes. The first generation of SLR tape used...

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