Tape cartridge for extremely wide tape having an access opening allowing extraction of tape, and tape drive for use therewith
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Feb 18, 2003
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Oct 19, 2000
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Oct 19, 2000
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A magnetic recording cartridge has a housing enclosure with two tape reels rotatably mounted in the housing enclosure, and a magnetic data recording tape wound on the reels for winding and unwinding between the two reels in a tape transport direction, the tape having a width perpendicular to the tape transport direction of at least approximately 2.5 inches. The housing enclosure has two reel access openings respectively disposed in registration with the reels, allowing external access to the reels by a drive for rotating the reels, and a tape access opening allowing external access to the tape for engagement with a data transfer head also carried by the drive. Because of the significantly increased width of the tape, the tape has a surface area available for data recording which is approximately ten times greater than that of conventional tapes. Such a single, extremely wide tape can store as much data as a conventional, fully loaded autoloader magazine, containing approximately ten conventional tape cartridges.
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