tape drive
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
tape drive (plural tape drives)
- (computing, historical) A cassette drive.
- (computing, historical) A reel-to-reel tape machine for computers.
- 1979 April 14, “Reliable Computer (classified advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
- Required: FORTRAN, line printer, enough storage for approx 375K Bytes -- tape drives preferred for confidentiality.
- (computing) A cartridge-based interface for computers that reads from and/or writes to a tape.
- A drive mechanism that is used to traverse a tape.
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Translations[edit]
computing: cassette drive
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computing: reel-to-reel tape machine
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computing: tape cartridge interface
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drive mechanism
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