We offer a full suite of solutions to convert and transfer your Quarter Inch Cartridge into a digital file.

The Quarter Inch Cartridge format (commonly referred to as "quick" cartridges) was created in 1972 as a product of 3M, and originally featured a 1/4" reel of magnetic tape, housed inside a plastic casing.


Used for computational storage, data would initially be written linearly across the magnetic tape on a single track, and as hardware improved, would shift to a serpentine write-on, allowing for a more densely populated data stream.

While 26 mainstream versions had been made available to the public, QIC-40 became the most widely used variants.

Due to the very specific hardware/software combinations required to read this legacy format, identifying the QIC specifications can be a challenging endeavor, but is still entirely possible.