The Wildest Thing™ about all this is how well you've documented it, so we can relive the experience and learn something new. I'd seen a ton of weird Apple CD-ROM drives, but never knew they made a tape drive!
Of course, my first exposure to tape besides cassettes was DAT, which we used at a...
The 637CD was the Mac my family and I played Myst on (I think maybe Seventh Guest and The Dig, too!)... even though it's from a forgettable era, it's a memorable model for me!