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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>cut a tape</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="cuspy.html" title="cuspy"/><link rel="next" href="cybercrud.html" title="cybercrud"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">cut a tape</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="cuspy.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="cybercrud.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="cut-a-tape"/><dt xmlns="" id="cut-a-tape"><b>cut a tape</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vi.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 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
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usage. Related slang usages are mainstream business's ‘cut a
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check’, the recording industry's ‘cut a record’, and the
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military's ‘cut an order’.</p><p>All of these usages reflect physical processes in obsolete recording
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and duplication technologies. The first stage in manufacturing an
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old-style vinyl record involved cutting grooves in a stamping die with a
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precision lathe. More mundanely, the dominant technology for mass
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duplication of paper documents in pre-photocopying days involved
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“<span class="quote">cutting a stencil</span>”, punching away portions of the wax overlay
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on a silk screen. More directly, paper tape with holes punched in it was
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an important early storage medium. See also
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