I'm trying to parse your comment. Are you being pedantic by suggesting cassettes aren't tapes? When colloquially in the UK at least cassettes were called tapes

I'm trying to parse your comment. Are you being pedantic by suggesting cassettes aren't tapes? When colloquially in the UK at least cassettes were called tapes. Plus both tapes and cassettes are streaming formats. And other tape formats came along later for the pc market anyway.