If you do, bring your own digital tape recorder.

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They also had problems with the digital tape recorder, which were an even more amazing remote fix, but these were more remote control work-arounds to fix hardware issues rather than software patches.

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One primitive example of such an arrangement is the digital audio tape recorder, which will not make copies from copies.

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Univac introduced a metal substrate tape and tape recorder for computer digital recording in 1951.

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