quarter inch cartridge

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

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).

   (1996-12-09)