Digital Linear Tape

The digital videotapes are compressed and encoded into digital linear tapes in a manufacturing plant called a replicator.

The discussions include Digital's magnetic disk, digital linear tape drive, solid-state disk drive and thin-film heads businesses.

Digital Linear Tape: Super DLT (SDLT)

(For the complete list of DLT products made by DEC, Quantum, and Benchmark, see Digital Linear Tape.)

Unlike some competing technologies such as Digital Linear Tape (DLT) and Linear Tape Open (LTO), Travan technology does not automatically verify data after writing.

DEC invented Digital Linear Tape (DLT), formerly known as CompacTape, which began as a compact backup medium for MicroVAX systems, and later grew to capacities of 800 gigabytes.