pertaining to a computer memory device that allows data to be read from as well as written to memory
He did not realize that the computer had a read-write CD drive.
1957
It was just what Berners-Lee had envisioned, a Web that was read-write rather than read-only.
The read-write check flag or the end of record flag is then interrogated to see that the tape is actually at the end of record.
This moves the tape forward with the read-write head positioned at the end of the following record.