She put her hand recorder — stocked with fresh batteries and a blank tape — in her bag with her memo pad and several pens.

In days of yore, when people wanted to capture the ephemeral television broadcasts of their favorite shows, they have a blank tape and a VCR to record it.

In days of yore, when people wanted to capture the ephemeral television broadcasts of their favorite shows, they had to use a blank tape and a VCR to record it.

He defined a computable number as real number whose decimal expansion could be produced by a Turing machine starting with a blank tape.