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tapedrive

tapedrive is the alternative form of tape drive.

Meaning of tape drive

Noun

tape drive (plural tape drives)

  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 of tapedrive

pluraltapedrives

Questions about tapedrive

What is tapedrive the alternative form of?
Tapedrive is the alternative form of tape drive.

Words near tapedrive in the dictionary

  1. taped out
  2. taped over
  3. taped up
  4. tapedeck
  5. tapedecks
  6. tapedrive
  7. tapedrives
  8. Tapee
  9. tapegrass
  10. Tapehanek
  11. Tapei

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