Hardware compression is supported if the tape drive supports it. The UNISERVO was the first commercial computer tape drive commercially sold. A typical tape drive sort uses four tape drives. A takeup reel is embedded inside the tape drive. The machine had an inbuilt monochrome display and a cassette tape drive. The economics of this comparison are more complicated than a single-spindle versus tape drive comparison. Compression is frequently a built-in feature of tape drive hardware. We didn't have any backups and the tape drive broke. A take-up reel is embedded inside the tape drive. IBM introduced the 3490E tape drive in 1991. The VIC-20 has card edge connectors for program/expansion cartridges and a PET-standard Datassette tape drive. A device that stores computer data on magnetic tape is known as a tape drive. In addition, the 6128plus does not have a tape socket for an external tape drive. Conner Peripherals also entered the tape drive business with its purchase of Archive Corporation. Vacuum tube amplifiers were used in the UNISERVO tape drive for the UNIVAC I computer.