In the early days, bootstrapping a computer meant feeding a paper tape containing a boot program or manually loading a boot program using the front panel address/data/control switches.

早期时，启动一台计算机意味着要给计算机喂一条包含引导程序的纸带，或者手工使用前端面板地址/数据/控制开关来加载引导程序。

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Tape partition information could not BE found when loading a tape.

在加载磁带时找不到磁带分区信息。

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Once we tape up these boxes, we can start loading the car.

一旦我们打包好这些盒子，我们就可以开始装车了。

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Dealers want the Department of Transportation, which administers the program, to cut some of the red tape and be more efficient about loading information into its computer system.

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