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{{MiscItem
|name=A Tape (Holotape or Holodisk)
|image=Tape3.gif
|desc=A Holotape. A tape on which you can write your own message or upload existing ones to your [[Pip-Boy]].
|primary=Upload text to [[Pip-Boy]] Archives
|alternate=(not documented)
|weight=1814
|cost=??
}}

==Obtaining Tapes==
You can buy them at Followers of the Apocalypse's [[Library]] in [[Boneyard]] area, and sometimes find them for sale by regular NPC merchants. You can acquire 2 holotapes by doing the [[Deliver Message for Elmer]] quest in [[Necropolis]], and 1 tape from a message-delivery quest in [[Shady Sands]].

==Uses==
To upload a Holodisk message to your [[Pip-Boy]], select "Hand" icon on tape in inventory. To read messages in your Pip-Boy, look in your Pip-Boy Archives. To write your own message into a holotape, select "Skilldex" icon on holodisk in inventory and then choose "Science" from list. You can delete an existing message from a tape by using your Delete key although text characters can only be deleted one at a time.

==Functional Limitations==
* Each Holotape has a 2000-character limit, but you can rarely get the full 2000 into a tape
* The editing interface does not scroll down so it is difficult to write long messages
* Size of editing window is not scaled to the width of a record so formatting is tough to get right
* No mouse control, so cursor placement is via keyboard only
* No way to delete or overwrite records once uploaded (no overwrite prompt)
* No way to re-order or sort or filter records once uploaded

For longer messages, players should write their text in an external text file, copy it and then paste into the tape.

'''NOTE''': In order to paste text into a tape, the character's chat bar must be open

Using holotapes can be fun though and effective, but getting tapes to look good in a Pip-Boy requires some practice.

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! Note
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| This feature is hard-coded into the game's engine so players should not expect these limitations to be fixed anytime [[soon]].
|}

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