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This was primarily done because the computer itself is very visually uninteresting when in operation. [[Rule of Perception|When a Tape Drive is operating, there is obviously something going on.]]
No longer as common, since in [[Real Life]], almost everybody has stopped using the old-fashioned 9-track mag tape reel because of size and cost, e.g. a 6250 bpi, 1600 foot tape could hold, at most, about 75 megabytes of data, and costs about US$12. By 2012, it was possible to walk into a stationery store and buy a microSD card the size of a man's thumbnail for close to $12, and it would hold at least 4 billion bytes, or about 50 times as much as the above tape reel. And that's not even the cheapest example. A top-the-line 2 terabyte<ref>that's 2,000,000 megabytes</ref> hard-drive could often be purchased at or under US$200.<ref>formerly $100, supply dropped after a 2011 Thailand flood that wiped out manufacturing plants</ref>
In modern works, this trope shows up only in period pieces set before approximately 1975, or when dealing with technology built before then.
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