What is "pretape"

Usage examples of "pretape".

The offerings of half a dozen different narrownets danced in the air around him: Gamers to his left, four different sessions played out in as many different venues, three old, pretaped, the fourth a late-night session that had dragged on into the morning.

Perhaps he had engraved it on the doddering mind, pretaped it toward any random time it might be needed.