tapedrive (pluraltape drives)

1. (computing, historical) Acassette drive.
2. (computing, historical) Areel-to-reel tape machine for computers.
   • 1979 April 14, “Reliable Computer (classified advertisement)”, inGay Community News, page14:

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

3. (computing) Acartridge-based interface for computers that reads from and/or writes to a tape.
4. Adrivemechanism that is used totraverse atape.

• cassette tape drive
• floppy drive

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