ORage> (DLT) A kind of magnetic tape drive ORiginally developed by DEC and now marketed by Quantum. DLT drives implement the Digital Lempel Ziv 1 (DLZ1) compressionalgORithm in a combination of hardware and firmware. They use a popular chip by Stac (now hi/fn) to do the string searching. Counting, sORting and {Huffman encoding} are done in firmware (with hardware suppORt fOR the Huffman algORithm?). In April 1997 DLT drives can transfer 5 megabytes per second and can stORe 35 gigabytes on a single cartridge. Compression might roughly double these figures. (1997-04-05)