NEWS RELEASE

Doc. No.: PR/97-135
Reply to: Barbara Bennett at bbennett@itic.nw.dc.us

Washington D.C., October 1997 - NCITS Announces the Public Comment Period for Magnetic Tape Cartridge for Information Interchange, Unrecorded, 128-track, Parallel Serpentine, 12.65 mm (1/2), 2550 ftpmm (64 770 ftpi). Development of this draft standard is being done in technical committee B5, Digital Magnetic Tape.

The public review extends from November 21, 1997 to January 20, 1998.

This standard provides the requirements for an unrecorded tape cartridge to be used for information interchange among information-processing systems. Such a cartridge comprises two parts:

- a case to provide protection of the media and contaminants and human handling, and to facilitate loading and unloading of the cartridge by the drive;

- a magnetic tape of 12.65 mm (0.498 in) width held inside the case on a reel. The tape shall be servo-written and transported on the reel for recording at a physical density of 2550 ftpmm (64 770 ftpi). Signal conditioning techniques may result in a higher effective recording density.

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