microtape

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microtape - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  microtape
  
     <hardware, storage> /mi:'kroh-tayp/ Occasionally used to mean
     a DECtape, as opposed to a macrotape.
  
     Apparently the term "microtape" was actually the official term
     used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word
     "DECtape", which, of course, sounded sexier to the
     marketroids.  Another version of the story holds that
     someone discovered a conflict with another company's
     "microtape" trademark.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1995-03-16)