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@@ -4,9 +4,8 @@ vt. 1. [obs.] To unload a DECtape (so it goes flap, flap, flap...). Old-time
 hackers at MIT tell of the days when the disk was device 0 and DEC
 microtapes were 1, 2,... and attempting to flap device 0 would instead start
 a motor banging inside a cabinet near the disk. 2. By extension, to unload
-any magnetic tape. Modern cartridge tapes no longer actually flap, but the
-usage has remained. (The term could well be re-applied to DEC's TK50
-cartridge tape drive, a spectacularly misengineered contraption which makes
-a loud flapping sound, almost like an old reel-type lawnmower, in one of its
-many tape-eating failure modes.
-
+any magnetic tape, even if it no longer actually had a flap.
+(The term could also be applied to DEC's TK50 cartridge tape drive,
+which was a spectacularly misengineered contraption making a loud flapping
+sound, almost like an old reel-type lawnmower, in one of its many
+tape-eating failure modes.