1.   The tape drive does an automatic back-up every lunchtime.

2.   ...equipment such as terminals, tape drives or printers.

3.   AMS has partnered with a telecommunications company and a manufacturer of magnetic heads for disk drives and tape drives, reflecting the two sides of its business.

4.   An earlier trial of a tape drive, once the favored backup medium, was so tedious I abandoned it.

5.   As replacements for the clumsy tape drives once commonly used for backups, Zip, Jaz and Sparq have succeeded admirably.

6.   Attaching a new device, like a scanner or tape backup drive, is about as straightforward as triple-bypass surgery.

7.   Backups can be done through programs in MS-DOS or Windows, or with a tape drive.

8.   But tape drives are slow and, for many people, intimidating.

9.   But with a tape drive, the contents of most disks can be copied to one or two tapes.

10.   Digital will sell Quantum its disk drive, tape drive, solid state disk and thin-film heads businesses.