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NEW YORK - The Colorado Memory Systems Division of Hewlett-Packard Co. will begin shipping on April 1 its first tape backup product based on Travan technology. The T1000 Travan minicartridge drive will feature more than twice the capacity of today's quarter-inch car tridge (QIC) drives that support the QIC-80 standard. "You get more capacity by going up to the Travan drive, and you will be backward compatible with all {existing} QIC-80 drives," said a spokesman for Colorado Memory Systems.
While current QIC-80 drives support 170 megabytes of storage in native mode and 340 Mbytes of compressed data, the T1000 Travan drive will support 400 Mbytes in...