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Meaning of tape drive | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A cassette drive.
historical
A reel-to-reel tape machine for computers.
historical
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.

Equivalents

Suomi nauha-asema

Polski napęd taśmowy

Examples

“Required: FORTRAN, line printer, enough storage for approx 375K Bytes -- tape drives preferred for confidentiality.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

tape echo tape gag tape guard tape knot tape library tape machine