Tape drive

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A cassette drive. historical
  2. 2
    a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder wordnet
  3. 3
    A reel-to-reel tape machine for computers. historical

    "Required: FORTRAN, line printer, enough storage for approx 375K Bytes -- tape drives preferred for confidentiality."

  4. 4
    A cartridge-based interface for computers that reads from and/or writes to a tape.
  5. 5
    A drive mechanism that is used to traverse a tape.

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