sure, but from actually using this hardware in the mid-80s and later, labs had QIC drives once they had suns, which was rather later on, and I don't think I eve

sure, but from actually using this hardware in the mid-80s and later, labs had QIC drives once they had suns, which was rather later on, and I don't think I ever saw a QIC drive on a VAX (a bunch of weird 9 track drives including a top loader, sure.) And microvaxes tended to have (non-functional) TK-50/TK-70 "linear" tapes (ancient ancestors of DLT)...