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Doc. No.: PR/97-106
Reply to: Deborah J. Donovan at ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us
Washington D.C., September 1997 - NCITS (National Committee for Information Technology Standards is announcing the public comment period for the adoption of ISO 1861:1975 as an American National Standard. The public review extends from September 12, 1997, to November 11, 1997.
This International Standard specifies a 7-track, 8 rows per millimetre (rpmm) [200 rows per inch (rpi)] 12,7 mm (0.5 in) wide magnetic tape for interchangeability of tape between information processing systems which utilize 6- and 7-bit coded character sets, the latter being as specified in ISO 646. It refers solely to magnetic tape for digital recording, on which the direction of magnetization is nominally longitudinal as opposed to nominally transverse.
Submit all comments to: NCITS Secretariat, Attn.: Deborah J. Donovan, 1250 Eye Street, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20005, Email: ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us. Send a copy to: ANSI, Attn.: BSR Center, 11 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036.
A call for possible patents and pertinent issues (copyrights, trademarks) is also being issued. Please submit information on these issues to the NCITS Secretariat at 1250 Eye Street NW, Suite 200, Washington DC 20005. Email: NCITS@itic.nw.dc.us FAX: (202)638-4922.
The document can be purchased for from American National Standards Institute, 11 West 42nd Street, New York, New York 10036. Telephone: 212-642-4900
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