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microtape

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(hardware, storage)microtape - /mi:'kroh-tayp/ Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a macrotape.

Apparently the term "microtape" was actually the official term used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word "DECtape", which, of course, sounded sexier to the marketroids. Another version of the story holds that someone discovered a conflict with another company's "microtape" trademark.
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SAN DIEGO - I might have dozed off Friday afternoon while Jim Tracy was discussing the itinerary for Hideo Nomo in the final week of the regular season, so I'll have to reconstruct what the Dodgers manager said from a fuzzy microtape, smudged notes and rank hearsay.
NOMO IS THE TEAM'S ONLY HOPE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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