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tape drive en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. (historical) A cassette drive.
  2. (historical) A reel-to-reel tape machine for computers.
    • Required: FORTRAN, line printer, enough storage for approx 375K Bytes -- tape drives preferred for confidentiality. 1979 April 14, “Reliable Computer (classified advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
  3. 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.

Forms

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tape drives Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

floppy drive · cassette tape drive

Translations (14)

mr टेप ड्राइव्ह (computing: reel-to-reel tape machine) · fi nauha-asema (computing: tape cartridge interface) · pl napęd taśmowy (computing: reel-to-reel tape machine) · pl napęd taśmowy (computing: tape cartridge interface) · fi nauha-asema (computing: reel-to-reel tape machine) · fi nauha-asema (computing: cassette drive) · da båndstation (computing: cassette drive) · fi kasettiasema (computing: cassette drive) · mr टेप ड्राइव्ह (computing: cassette drive) · mr टेप ड्राइव्ह (computing: tape cartridge interface) · pl napęd taśmowy (computing: cassette drive) · da båndstation (computing: reel-to-reel tape machine) · pl napęd taśmowy (drive mechanism) · fi nauhankuljetin (drive mechanism)