On 1 Jul 2004 00:15:17 GMT, (Christopher C.
Stacy) wrote:

What does "cut a tape" mean, and why and where does that come from?

It means "record" a tape. I suspect the origin is from the days
before magnetic recording, when recordings were made mechanically on
discs, literally "cut" into the disc by a stylus.

To this day many people refer to the tracks on a CD as "cuts." Old
linguistic habits die hard.

Mark Howell