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Quare Tape N. Mainframe Magnetic Tape Cartridges For Use With IBM 3480 Or Compatible Tape Drive
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square tape n.
Mainframe magnetic tape cartridges for use
with IBM 3480 or compatible tape drives; or QIC tapes used on
workstations and micros. The term comes from the square (actually
rectangular) shape of the cartridges; contrast round tape.
Related:
quare tape n. Mainframe magnetic tape cartridges for use with IBM 3480 or compatible tape drive
or QIC tapes used on workstations and micros. The term comes from the square (actually rectangular) shape of the cartridge...
ound tape n. Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels.
See macrotape, oppose square tape....
ound tape: n. Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels.
See {macrotape}, oppose {square tape}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
macrotape /mak'roh-tayp/ n. An industry-standard reel of tape.
Originally, as opposed to a DEC microtape; nowadays, as opposed to modern QIC and DDS tapes....
PMT: Punch Magnetic Tape
microtape: /mi:'kroh-tayp/ n. Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a {macrotape}.
A DECtape is a small reel, about 4 inches in diameter, of magnetic tape about an inch wide....
One picture is worth a thousand reels of magnetic tape.
Information is held on magnetic tape by a series of punched holes.