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** It's justified in ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' as well, since it takes place in the ''actual'' 1960s. Granted, this world has been shown to have more advanced science than its period (or our own, or [[MST3K Mantra|the laws of physics]]), but nothing that would have been out of place in a sci-fi flick of the period, which still probably would have featured tape drives.
* The computers in ''[[Fallout]]'' are often found with tape drives. In ''[[Fallout 2]]'', these are described as being very modern real-to-reel devices. Justified, given the slightly twisted alternate history the games exist in.
* Discussed in ''[[Disco Elysium]]'' where tape based computers were invented just as a doomed [[Dirty Communists|communist]] revolution would seize them leading them to become [[Lost Technology]] and to the proliferation of radiocomputers instead. It’s a matter of in universe [[What Could Have Been]] to Trant, who admires the war torn offices where the tape computers were developed with his son.
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