Tape
A holotape. A tape on which you can write your own message or upload existing ones to your Pip-Boy.
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 for free by doing the Deliver Message for Elmer quest in Necropolis.
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.
Each holotape has a 2000-character limit. The editing interface does not scroll down though so it is difficult to write long messages in a tape directly through the in-game interface. For longer messages, players usually 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
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| This feature has functional limitations including lack of scroll bars, no way to delete records once uploaded to Pip-Boy Archives, difficulty in editing mode, etc. This feature is hard-coded into the game engine so players should expect these limitations to be fixed soon. |