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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 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 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 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 any magnetic tape, even if it no longer actually had a flap.
usage has remained. (The term could well be re-applied to DEC's TK50 (The term could also be applied to DEC's TK50 cartridge tape drive,
cartridge tape drive, a spectacularly misengineered contraption which makes which was a spectacularly misengineered contraption making a loud flapping
a loud flapping sound, almost like an old reel-type lawnmower, in one of its sound, almost like an old reel-type lawnmower, in one of its many
many tape-eating failure modes. tape-eating failure modes.