Format
Quarter Inch Cartridge Host Interchange Format
Summary
- Name
- Quarter Inch Cartridge Host Interchange Format
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/508
- Format type
- Aggregate
- Description
- Quarter Inch Cartridge tape is a magnetic tape data storage format. The '.qic' software format is based on the QIC113 specification: http://www.qic.org/html/standards/11x.x/qic113g.pdf and conforming files were generated by Microsoft 9x operating systems with the native MSBackup.exe utility.
- File extensions
-
qic - Submitted by
- The Borthwick Institute for Archives / The Borthwick Institute for Archives
Internal signatures
QIC
- Description
- BOF: VTBL{54}version number(q.= Win 95|AS=Win98/ME){66}..
- Provenance
- Specification: http://www.qic.org/html/standards/11x.x/qic113g.pdf Further detail: http://www.fpns.net/willy/msbackup.htm
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
5654424C{54}(4153|7100){66}0000- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V67
- Release date
- 26 February 2013
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Added format
Quarter Inch Cartridge Host Interchange Format: Outline Entry Added. Submitted by The Borthwick Institute for Archives.
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Added signature
Quarter Inch Cartridge Host Interchange Format: Signature developed in collaboration with the Borthwick Institute for Archives.