tape drive

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It packs into one handy 4-lb. package a full-size keyboard, a screen that displays four lines of text, a cash-register-type printer, a microcassette tape drive and more built-in memory than any comparably priced machine.

From Time Magazine Archive

A shoebox sat beside the tape drive, filled with dozens of these cassettes.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

This means that tar can take many files and combine them all into one large file or write them out to a backup device such as a tape drive.

From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by Goerzen, John