The Cipher Data Products Inc San Diego, California subsidiary of Archive Corp reports that it has received a contract amendment and new orders for the Cipher C880ES nine-track reel-to-reel tape drive from NCR Corp: the C880ES is the latest generation of the microstreamer phase-encoded tape drive and provides a dual recording density of 1,600/3,200 bits per inch; a direct SCSI interface makes emulation via the Cipher-Pertec interface unnecessary; no value revealed.
