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• 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}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• 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...
• 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....
• 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....
• usty memory: n. Mass-storage that uses iron-oxide-based magnetic media (esp.
  ape and the pre-Winchester removable disk packs used in {washing machine}s)....
• PMT: Punch Magnetic Tape
• 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,....