Tape drives can range in capacity from a few megabytes to hundreds of gigabytes of uncompressed data.

Tape drives can be connected to a computer with SCSI ( most common ), Fibre Channel, SATA, USB, FireWire, FICON, or other interfaces.

Tape drives were originally half inch open reel at 6250 bits per inch, which were replaced in the early 1990s with 4 mm Digital Audio Tape cassettes.

They are the only company still selling drives that use the QIC ( also known as SLR ) and VXA formats, but also produce LTO along with autoloaders, tape libraries, NAS devices, RDX Removable Disk Drives, Media and Virtual Tape Libraries.

Tape drives were 7-track format, with the IBM 727 used on vacuum tube machines and the 729 on transistor machines.

Tape drives were available as backup devices ; the 6157 QIC ( quarter-inch cartridge ) and the reel-to-reel 8809 both had capacities of roughly 60MB.

** Tape cartridge, for use in tape drives

Tape drives and workstations were also included in the system.

* Tape drives: StorageTek 9940, 9840C, T9840D, T10000A, T10000B

* Tape drives ( rebranded ): LTO, SDLT, DLT

Tape drives conforming with the IBM 3480 product family specification were manufactured by a variety of vendors from 1984 to 2004.

Tape drives built for the 3480 were initially designed for IBM System / 370 computers.

The only differences are that ‘ The Voice On Tape ’ gives a different set of instructions in each episode, and there is very briefly a different set of insert shots that show the photographs which Dan Briggs is viewing.

Tape is a linear method of storing information and since nearly all video recordings made nowadays are digital direct to disk recording ( DDR ), videotape is expected to gradually lose importance as non-linear / random-access methods of storing digital video data become more common.

As well as packaging a variety of food items, there are also industrial applications, such as a base for such self-adhesive tapes as Sellotape and Scotch Tape, a semi-permeable membrane in a certain type of battery, as dialysis tubing ( Visking tubing ) and as a release agent in the manufacture of fibreglass and rubber products.

Tape loop effects are sometimes combined with a technique wherein the playback speed of the loop is increased or decreased over time, somewhat similar to a glissando which slurs the pitch of a note up or down as used in music.

Some of the latest events to come through Reliant Arena are the And 1 Mix Tape Tour, Hannah Montana, The Cheetah Girls, and Sesame Street Live.

Tape lengths are the same as for Digital Betacam, up to 40 minutes for S and 124 minutes for L tapes.

Members of Team Sleep, Death Grips, Will Haven, Red Tape & Deftones are seen there when Crook is performing on Friday nights.

In addition to numerous small employers, there are also several manufacturing facilities employing several hundred people ; Scapa Tapes Renfrew, formerly Renfrew Tape makes products such as hockey tape that is used across North America and the duct tape brand featured on the discontinued Red Green Show.

Phat Tape is the longest running hip hop radio show in Australia, current hosts are Chubba Dubbed, Complex, Dj Dcide and Sean B.

Tape speed and tension are controlled electronically via the reel motors ; there is no capstan.

Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Tape, Before Sunrise, and Before Sunset are examples of this method.

Tape libraries commonly have the capability of optically scanning barcode labels which are attached to each tape, allowing them to automatically maintain an inventory of which tapes are where within the library.

Another notable audio choice is ' Book on Tape ' where all the lines are read by a calm British narrator.

Other members of the touring band are Marika Anthony-Shaw – a violist and former Lindsay Place High School strings teacher who played on Recording a Tape the Colour of the Light with Bell Orchestre and Set Yourself on Fire by Stars – as well as horn players Colin Stetson and Kelly Pratt, who have also played with Beirut.

Tape gags are the simplest gags to apply.

2 ) Tape replay keyboards use pre-recorded tapes where not only the musical notes are recorded, but also, for example the pick of a guitar, air in the flute ( Chamberlin ), scratch of the violin or cello bow ( Mellotron ), the breath of a choir or ambience of a real church organ ( Birotron ), as well as the ambient acoustics of the room the instruments were recorded in.

Nashua Brand Tape Products are now manufactured in Franklin, Kentucky.

* Tape the lip against the unit load if additional push-pull activities are required.

The Scotch brand and Scotch Tape are registered trademarks of 3M.

Tape lengths are the same as for Digital Betacam, up to 40 minutes for S and 124 minutes for L tapes.

Rolls of EPDM are available with Factory Applied Tape pre-applied to one edge.

To deal with this, those forced to dwell in their cars have their own virtual reality " Apartments on Tape " to diminish their ordeal, although social security helicopters and food and drink vendors are available to provide some solace.

* Tape recorder ( also used for computer tape )

As an operating system, it was adapted to Tape usage, saving / loading user vocabularies instead of the usual numbered programming blocks used in diskette systems.

In 1925 Creed acquired the patents for Donald Murray's Murray code, a rationalised Baudot code, and it was used for their new Model 3 Tape Teleprinter of 1927.

Because the previously used generic term " duck tape " had fallen out of use, he was able to trademark the brand " Duck Tape " and market his product complete with a yellow cartoon duck logo.

* Tape Management System, computer software used for the management of computer backup tapes

** Digital Audio Tape ( or DAT ), a digital audio cassette tape format, mainly used by professionals

Alesis Digital Audio Tape or ADAT is a tape format used for multitrack recording of digital audio at once, onto Super VHS magnetic tape.

Tape and player quality developments such as chrome tape and noise reduction allowed the cartridges and tape speeds to shrink, first to the size of an 8-track with eight monaural programs on a tape running at 1-7 / 8 IPS, to the size of a modern laptop hard drive and a speed of 15 / 16 IPS used by the Library of Congress for Talking Books.

The technology behind the worldwide consumer video revolution ; it is used in all home Video Tape Recorders today.

After 1993, in the United States, the term dark wave ( as the one-word variant darkwave ) became associated with the Projekt Records label, because it was the name of their printed catalog, and was used to market German artists like Project Pitchfork in the U. S. Projekt features bands such as Lycia, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, and Love Spirals Downwards, most of these characterized by ethereal female vocals.

An ADAT XT 8-channel digital audio recorderAlesis Digital Audio Tape or ADAT is a magnetic tape format used for the simultaneous digital recording of eight analog audio or digital audio tracks at once, onto a Super VHS tape that is used by consumer VCRs.

The theme of scientific methods being used to investigate the paranormal has a long history in British television ( see Quatermass and the Pit and The Stone Tape ).

TOS / 360 ( Tape Operating System / 360 ) was an IBM operating system for the System / 360, used in the early days around 1965 to support the IBM 360 model 30 and similar platforms.

* In 1991 Alesis Digital Audio Tape or ADAT is a tape format used for simultaneously recording eight tracks of digital audio at once, onto Super VHS magnetic tape-a format similar to that used by consumer VCRs.

Nainsook Cotton was often used to make Bias Tape in the 50's and 60's.

Kapton Tape is commonly used by members of the RepRap community for covering the surface of a heated build platform, mainly because kapton adheres very well to ABS plastic hence preventing the ABS part from warping.

Tape is used by kidnappers since it is most effective at keeping hostages quiet.

1 ) Tape replay keyboards have been used on and even responsible for creating iconic recordings ( for example the Mellotron on the Beatles " Strawberry Fields Forever ")

Nashua Tape Products ' 357 brand duct tape is used by Mythbusters duo Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman for their projects.