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Doc. No.: PR/97-120
Reply to: Barbara Bennett at bbennett@itic.nw.dc.us
Washington D.C., September 1997 - NCITS (National Committee for Information Technology Standards) announces approval of this new project being developed within Technical Committee, B5, Digital Magnetic Tape. The reference number for this project is 1250-D.
This proposed standard represents:
- capabilities which results in a 50% increase in native storage capacity over the fully compatible DLT3 format, as described in X3.282:1996
- the minimal environmental, mechanical and magnetics requirements for a 15 Gigabyte Formatted 0.50 inch cartridge for data interchange between systems
- it also describes the format, DLT3XT, used in the recorded portion of the proposed standard.
Inquiries regarding this project [project 1250-D] and Digital Magnetic Tape projects should be sent to the Chairman of B5, Mr. Richard Steinbrenner, Lucent Technologies, C3C18, 283 King George Road, Warren, NJ 07059. Email: rsteinbrenner@lucent.com.
The next meeting of B5 is November 4-5, 1997 in Santa Barbara, California. All organizations and individuals who are materially or directly affected are invited to participate.
An initial call for possible patents and other pertinent issues (copyrights, trademarks) is now 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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