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cut a tape
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vi. To write a software or document distribution on magnetic tape for
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shipment. Has nothing to do with physically cutting the medium! Early
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versions of this lexicon claimed that one never analogously speaks of
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cutting a disk , but this has since been reported as live usage. Related
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slang usages are mainstream business's cut a check , the recording
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industry's cut a record , and the military's cut an order. All of these
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usages reflect physical processes in obsolete recording and duplication
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technologies. The first stage in manufacturing an old-style vinyl record
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involved cutting grooves in a stamping die with a precision lathe. More
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mundanely, the dominant technology for mass duplication of paper documents
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in pre-photocopying days involved cutting a stencil , punching away portions
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of the wax overlay on a silk screen. More directly, paper tape with holes
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punched in it was an important early storage medium. See also burn a CD.
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