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Digital Tape Format is a magnetic tape data storage format developed by Sony. It uses a 1/2" wide tape, in a cassette with two reels, which is written and read with a helical scan process. The format is described by the ECMA 248 (adopted June 1998) and ISO/IEC 15731 standards. There are two sizes of tape cassettes, "S" and "L".
Microsoft Tape Format (MTF) is the tape format used by several backup tools for the Microsoft Windows platform. Notable examples include Microsoft's NTBackup program, Backup Exec and the backup utilities included in Microsoft SQL Server. Several open source utilities have been written to read MTF on non-Windows platforms. [1] [2] [3]
PlayTape, a format similar to 8-track that was created by Frank Stanton; HiPac, a format created by Pioneer as an alternative to 8-track to be used outside of North America; Mini-Cassette, a small cassette tape format developed by Phillips for dictation machines and data storage for the Philips P2000 home computer
The 8 mm backup format is a discontinued magnetic tape data storage format used in computer systems, pioneered by Exabyte Corporation. It is also known as Data8 , often abbreviated to D8 and is written as D-Eight on some Sony branded media.
The IBM Linear Tape File System - Library Edition (LTFS-LE) product allows LTFS volumes to be used in a tape library. Each LTFS-formatted tape cartridge in the library appears as a separate folder under the filesystem mount point and the user or application can navigate into each of these folders to access the files stored on each tape.
The KIM-1 single-board computer specified a file format for magnetic tape and a format for paper tape. The paper tape format was adapted slightly and has been used to interchange files for computers based on the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor. [1] The open-source Srecord package simplified this tape format by eliminating the <NUL> and XOFF ...
The most popular tape format using a DV codec was MiniDV; these cassettes measured just 6.35 mm/¼ inch, making it ideal for video cameras and rendering older analog formats obsolete. [2] In the late 1990s and early 2000s, DV was strongly associated with the transition from analog to digital desktop video production, and also with several ...
In addition to the standard packet format, the driver gives the user direct control over the tape drive motors and reading and writing the tones. This is used with audio tapes to control playback. A typical scenario has an audio recording on the "left" track and short bursts of 5327 Hz at key locations within the audio.