English
Noun
tape drive (plural tape drives)
- (computing, historical) A cassette drive.
- (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.
- (computing) A cartridge-based interface for computers that reads from and/or writes to a tape.
- A drive mechanism that is used to traverse a tape.
Translations
computing: cassette drive
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- Danish: båndstation c
- Finnish: nauha-asema (fi), kasettiasema (fi)
- Marathi: टेप ड्राइव्ह f (ṭep ḍrāivha)
- Polish: napęd taśmowy (pl) m
- Russian: please add this translation if you can
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computing: reel-to-reel tape machine
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Danish: båndstation c
- Finnish: nauha-asema (fi)
- Marathi: टेप ड्राइव्ह f (ṭep ḍrāivha)
- Polish: napęd taśmowy (pl) m
- Russian: please add this translation if you can
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computing: tape cartridge interface
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- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: nauha-asema (fi)
- Marathi: टेप ड्राइव्ह f (ṭep ḍrāivha)
- Polish: napęd taśmowy (pl) m
- Russian: please add this translation if you can
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drive mechanism
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- Finnish: takaisinkelaus
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