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From: dclemans.falcon@mntgfx.mentor.com (Dave Clemans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: vt100; ctape info
Message-ID: <1988Dec5.084853.2928@mntgfx.mentor.com>
Date: 5 Dec 88 16:48:51 GMT
References: <18300001@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation, Beaverton Oregon
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>   2. Cartridge tapes. I have a user who needs to read formatted
>      catridge tapes on the Apollo. The tapes are format type
>      HCD-75 (according to 3M). The tape is formatted in 64k
>      1024 byte blocks (which makes sense, it is a 600 foot tape).
>      Because this is a formatted tape, no normal Apollo utility
>      (rwmt, rbak, even cptape) can read the tape; they fault out
>      with an error (i/o error on block 0; - read no data).

My understanding is that Apollo's use QIC-24 formatted
cartridge tapes.

dgc