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Doc. No.: PR/97-113
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/IEC 12246:1993 as an American National Standard. The public review extends from September 12, 1997, to November 11, 1997.
This International Standard specifies the physical and magnetic characteristics of an 8 mm wide magnetic tape cartridge to enable interchangeability of such cartridges. It also specifies the quality of the recorded signals, the format and the recording method, thus allowing, together with ISO 1001 for Magnetic Tape Labelling, full data interchange by means of such magnetic tape cartridges. It is based on ISO/IEC 11319, 8 mm Wide Magnetic Tape Cartridge for Information Interchange - Helical Scan Recording - but uses Dual Azimuth Recording to allow the raw capacity to be doubled. The format supports variable length Logical Records, high speed search, and the use of a registered data compression algorithm.
The information according to this International Standard shall appear on cartridges and on packages of unrecorded flexible disk cartridges available to end uses. Drives for FDCs should bear the indication of Types(s) of FDC they can handle. Manuals for drives and systems should also included this information.
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.
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