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• ound tape n. Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels.
  See macrotape, oppose square tape....
• macrotape: /mak'roh-tayp/ n. An industry-standard reel of tape, as opposed to a {microtape}.
  See also {round tape}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• 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...
• 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....
• flap: vt. 1. To unload a DECtape (so it goes flap, flap, flap.
  ..). Old-time hackers at MIT tell of the days when the disk was device 0 and {microtape}s were 1, 2,....
• One picture is worth a thousand reels of magnetic tape.
• 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...
• 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....