Talk:Data8

The compatibility table needs some explanation... maybe we can correctly guess that 'RO' meads read only, but what do 2.4 and 5 mean?
 * Sorry. The numbers are the capacities of a tape when used with a particular drive. I added a legend. -- Austin Murphy 01:17, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Coolatoola?
http://www.coolatoola.com/

This fellow seems to make a "something" that gives DV and Digital-8 tapes the ability to hold, according to him, around 15 GB to 17 GB of data. (Unless I read that incorrectly.) Should not the article be informative of all the ways to hold digital information for data upon consumer tape formats? Apple8800 (talk) 11:11, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

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Not the first commercial helical scan data storage
"This was the first form of helical scan tape used commercially for data storage."

I have removed this claim, as it is false. Corvus Mirror used a conventional (ie, helical scan) VCR to dump data from a hard drive way back in the early 1980s. I left the link to helical scan as it is relevant and may be useful. 82.13.91.100 (talk) 22:27, 20 March 2018 (UTC)