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C
cassette
cleaning
cassette
cm
DDS
4mm DDS
data
cassette
FCC
GB
HSM
Hz
initiator
KB
LED
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Glossary
8 bits or one character
Celsius (Centigrade)
A storage medium item. A cassette is sometimes called a tape or
cartridge and is capable of storing vast amounts of magnetically-
written data. Some cassettes can store more than 16 gigabytes of
data.
Media used to clean the drive heads and tape path.
centimeter (0.3937 inches)
Digital Data Storage is the original industry-standard data
interchange recording format that supports the use of DAT for
computer applications. The DDS format is an overlay to the basic
DAT audio format.
Media used in the DAT Autochanger. It is a data-quality 4mm metal-
particle cassette. These cassettes require no formatting or other
media conditioning before use. These cassettes must be adic
approved.
Federal Communications Commission
gigabyte (1 GB = 1,024 Megabytes)
Hierarchical Storage Management – a system where different types
of storage medium are used based on cost and time efficiency. For
example, for fastest access, data is usually stored on a local hard
drive. If you have a very large file that is needed occasionally, you
may store it on a tape in a DAT Autochanger magazine, or on an
optical drive. In an HSM system, the data source should be
transparent to the user.
Hertz (replacement for "cycles-per-second").
A host computer system that requests an operation to be performed
by a target device.
Kilobyte (1 KB = 1,024 bytes)
Light Emitting Diode, a commonly used display that glows when
supplied with a specified voltage.
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