21.   It was running two hard drives, a double floppy drive and a tape drive.

22.   StorageTek has opened sales offices in Russia and is its tape drives indirectly through other Eastern bloc nations.

23.   Tape drives are, on the face of it, not the most glamorous components you can put into a computer.

24.   That was also when student Eichhorn short-circuited a Digital computer tape drive that spewed black smoke into the chemistry lab.

25.   The cheapest way by far to back up vast amounts of data is a tape drive.

26.   To be prepared, you should back up your files regularly to an external device like a tape drive or an additional hard drive.

27.   Unless you have a tape drive, making a backup, which creates an exact copy of the contents of your hard disk, is a pain.

28.   You also could use a big tape drive, which can gobble up tons of data but tends to be slow and noisy.

29.   It also makes tape drives, and is a leading developer of business software.

30.   The OS handles input and output functions including handling tape drives, printers, keyboards, etc.