tape drive

English

Noun

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.

Related terms

• cassette tape drive
• floppy drive

Translations

computing: cassette drive

• Chinese:

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• Danish: båndstation c
• Finnish: nauha-asema (fi), kasettiasema (fi)
• Polish: napęd taśmowy (pl) m
• Russian: please add this translation if you can

computing: reel-to-reel tape machine

• Chinese:

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• Danish: båndstation c
• Finnish: nauha-asema (fi)
• Polish: napęd taśmowy (pl) m
• Russian: please add this translation if you can

computing: tape cartridge interface

• Chinese:

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• Finnish: nauha-asema (fi)
• Polish: napęd taśmowy (pl) m
• Russian: please add this translation if you can

drive mechanism

• Chinese:

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• Finnish: takaisinkelaus
• Russian: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

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