automated tape library

automated tape library

[′ȯd·ə‚mād·əd ′tāp ¦lī‚brer·ē]
(computer science)
A computer storage system consisting of several thousand magnetic tapes and equipment under computer control which automatically brings the tapes from storage, mounts them on tape drives, dismounts the tapes when the job is completed, and returns them to storage.
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