Quarter Inch Cartridge
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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).