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magnetic tape drive

(storage)
(Or "tape drive") A peripheral device that reads and writes magnetic tape.
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Beginning with a punched card and soon followed by the first magnetic tape drive, the IBM 726 in 1952, and the first disk drive, the IBM Ramac 350 in 1956, the storage industry and its hierarchy was born.
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