digital audio tape

British  

noun

1.  DAT.  magnetic tape on which sound is recorded digitally, giving high-fidelity reproduction

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Example Sentences

Allowing second-generation copying on digital audio tape devices could suggest a desire to permit infringement.

From Slate

The three friends — Jacob Hemphill, Bobby Lee and Ryan Berty — decided they’d form their own band and named it SOJA, for Soldiers of Jah Army, and it was the kind of thing you’d expect from teens in the ’90s: practicing in their parents’ garages and basements, recording themselves on digital audio tape or minidisc.

From Washington Post

Simultaneously, she managed to write an album’s worth of songs, which she recorded on digital audio tape in 1990.

From Washington Post

We never expected a response, but two weeks later a digital audio tape arrived.

From The Guardian

The firm had already promoted another digital format - the Digital Audio Tape - but the complex nature of the equipment needed to play it put it out of the reach of most consumers.

From BBC