Invisible wrote:
> The tape *drive* itself is comparatively quiet. But when it first loads 
> the tape, and occasionally thereafter, it makes a "chattering" noise 
> which sounds *exactly* like the 1960s reel-to-reel tape streamers you 
> see in old movies.

My naive guess would be that they're tensioning the tape by winding it until 
a soft tab slips out of a slot at the right tension.

I don't remember reel-to-reel tape streamers chattering. Of course, the only 
ones I used were in a big room full of mainframe where it was hard to hear 
normal speech, let alone machine noises.

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