quarter inch cartridge

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quarter inch cartridge - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Quarter Inch Cartridge
  
     <storage> /kwik/ (QIC) a type of magnetic tape and tape drive
     .  Development standards for QIC make it possible for
     tapes written on one QIC drive to be read on another.  QIC
     drives are made to work with different lengths of tape.  The
     model number of the drive consists of QIC followed by a number
     which indicates the drives tape capacity in megabytes (MB).
  
     (1996-12-09)