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tape drive (plural tape drives)

  1. (computing, historical) A cassette drive.
  2. (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.
  3. (computing) A cartridge-based interface for computers that reads from and/or writes to a tape.
  4. A drive mechanism that is used to traverse a tape.

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